After the June 1990 Hijacking of the Canadian Stage Company I was eager to return home to Montreal. A period of struggling to survive by my wits followed. First up was going back to Moscow and opening Midsummer Night’s Dream in Russian at the Pushkin in Moscow. This is pretty well covered in Hot Ice my director’s diary about staging Shakepeare in Moscow. Dream ran for eleven years in repertory at the Pushkin. Back in Canada, with playwright Douglas Rodger we upgraded The Tivoli, the old Vaudeville House in Hamilton, and together we produced the world premiere of his play How Could You Mrs. Dick? This was one of the “lost” plays from the cancelled Canadian Stage Company season after the high-jacking. A season cancelled ostensibly because the Board was worried about ticket sales for a season of new Canadian plays. Irony is that our run of Mrs. Dick in Hamilton and the subsequent run at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto sold more single tickets for that one play than the entire cobbled-together replacement Canadian Stage season post-highjacking!!! I then directed a few plays free-lance, including the premiere of Sharon Pollock play, Fair Liberty’s Call, at Stratford, Ontario. The first draft of a television script that became Mama’s Boys, starring Graham Greene and Tom Jackson that was presented nationally by Global TV. I wrote many articles for a variety of newspapers. Even was a literary columnist for the Montreal Gazette. Conceived and was the driving force behind getting Mordecai Richler to permit himself to be roasted at the Ritz Carleton as a fundraiser for English-language writers and theatres. It was also during this period that I wrote and directed a number of radio drama’s for CBC including On Guard For Thee my docu-drama about the Canadian Airborne Regiment in Somalia that ended up winning national broadcast awards. After directing L’Affaire Tartuffe and then Sliding In All Directions for Theatre 1774, one morning the Artistic Director, Marianne Ackerman phoned me up and asked if I wanted to inherit her theatre. She had had enough. I jumped at her generous suggestion. In 1999, Theatre 1774 became Infinithéâtre.