We ran a series of workshops with Theatre-in-Education professionals to assist in developing the techniques for developing this kind of advocacy theatre. During the summer of 1994 we funded a fulltime professional company that developed scripts for children's theatre, historical and contemporary monologues, and a number of theatre games, and performed these in area schools, conservation areas, summer camps, community events, official functions, and wherever else the company could find an audience. Included in this anthology are a selection of monologues, The Home Show, and an audience participation event called (descriptively) Kill Water. During subsequent years, old and new members of ETW performed, using materials scripted that first summer in the "hotbed" of fulltime professionalism, in area schools, at the RBG, and at summer camps. In addition a number of major events were added to this repertory. A volunteer company under the guidance of ETW member Taras Cymbalisty workshopped and performed a children's play, Perfect Paradise, again performed in area schools. In partnership with the McMaster Dancers (under guest artistic director and ETW member Jennifer Johnson), ETW conducted workshops and co-created a number of dance events exploring environmental themes–including works based on early monologues. We ended the project with two major productions: Six Puppets and a Fish (Not to Mention the Fisherman), an outdoor site specific environmental folktale; and Prometheus Bound (and bound again), a more experimental re-mounting and exploration of the play by Aeschylus as an environmental (as well as political) mythology.
ETW’s participants included, among many contributors, the following paid professionals: Taras Cymbalisty, Dave Woodcroft, Lauren McKinley Renzetti, Jennifer Johnson, Stephen Cook-Abbott, and Trish Reid. ETW provided the impetus for Handmade Performance.