In the mid-1990s, Vancouver gave birth to three companies that have changed the face of theatre on the West Coast: Electric Company Theatre, Boca del Lupo and neworldtheatre. All three collectives have helped shape Vancouver’s rich new theatrical ecology by virtue of their original, self-created work and unique performance protocols, reinvigorating what had been a pretty moribund local scene through the introduction of new styles of physical and political theatre, site-specific performance and innovative uses of theatrical technologies.