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Dateline: 2nd March, 2004 Edfringe Venue Artistic Director Sacked The artistic director of a new Edinburgh Fringe venue has been sacked. Paul Wagner, an actor and comic, was sacked by entrepreneur Thomas McAleer who is organising the new venue, Cowgate Central Theatre. Wagner had set up a website for the venue claiming it would be the biggest in Edinburgh, with twenty satellites across the city, would create three tented theatres on the site of the 2002 fire, and would work with companies in a completely different way, operating on a co-operative basis, with profit sharing as a central part of the relationship. McAleer, who sacked Wagner last week, claimed that the website had been set up without his consent and that he had been "firefighting" ever since. Managers of existing venue are understood to have been annoyed by his claims. The Gilded Balloon's Karen Koren was not surprised at his sacking. "He has only been in Edinburgh twice," she told The Sctsman. "What on earth would he know about Edinburgh? You can’t come along and open twenty theatres in one year. "He claimed he was going to do things better, but you can’t do that until you have done the thing at least once." McAleer will honour the contracts that have already been signed with companies, he said, but suggested that his venue would not be on the scale set out by Wagner. Fringe director Paul Gudgin said, "The position is a little unclear at the moment, but we will do what we can to make sure performers can bring their shows to Edinburgh." These performers, he said, would not lose out. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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