The very first Old Trout show we made when we founded the company on the Palmer Ranch in southern Alberta. We built it out of fenceposts and scrap farm machinery, and then premiered it in the old bunkhouse for an audience of cowboys and Hutterites with horses peering in through the frosted windows. The Hutterites helped us drive the set into Calgary for the High Performance Rodeo in January of 20000, and we all tracked hay and mud all over the Centre for the Performing Arts, completely out of our element... and yet, somehow, it felt like the beginning of something.

Alas: we've probably never really managed to recapture the sense of delight and common purpose we had when we made this show.