1979: The Beginning
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (BIBT) was established and incorporated in Toronto, 1979.
Sky Gilbert became the company's first Artistic Director that same year and The Rhubarb! Festival was mounted for the first time.
Buddies was one of the six influential companies who banded together to form The Theatre Centre in Toronto - a movement of theatre that was hailed as the Next Wave. Of all the companies involved in the venture, Buddies found an artistic and social connection to the work Nightwood theatre was doing and an alliance was formed that showed itself in 6 collaborative Rhubarb! Festivals.
By 1983 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre was receiving funding from four levels of government.
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