 Shadowland Repertory Company (named after the early Hollywood magazine, Shadowland) was founded in 1982 by Whitney Smith and Victor Coleman with a mandate of producing musicals using shadow puppetry and other alternative theatrical media.The first production, "Radio Ghost", a musical about the fictional meeting of Canadian radio inventor Reginald Fessenden and radio diva Jessica Dragonette, was co-written by Smith and Coleman and toured artist-run centres across Canada.During the World Stage in 1982, the British company Welfare State International worked in collaboration with the Toronto Island community to produce the "Tempest on Snake Island".