In 1972, CODCO founding members Cathy Jones, Greg Malone, Dyan Olsen, Tommy Sexton, Mary Walsh, and Mary White were given $300 seed money by Paul Thompson of Theatre Passe Muraille. This money helped them to live in Toronto and write Cod on a Stick, which was produced as a full length play in Newfoundland in 1973. The play began with four sketches which ran twenty minutes and grew by accretion to its final form, eighteen scenes. This quintessentially Newfoundland troupe – as its members cheerfully admit – is beholden to the Canadian collective theatre movement for its early direction, form and being.