A lottery grant buys us digital video kit (remember this was a big deal in 1997) and we move into a tiny office at MAC to accomodate it. We work for the first time with four people who will go on to have long histories with the company: Craig Stephens and Jake Oldershaw in our new touring show, Rochi Rampal and Jack Trow as teenagers in a youth theatre show. We also recruit our first Paulette Terry Brien as our first administrator.