In 1992 the company decided to settle in a city that would allow them access to a wide variety of communities to collaborate with. Since then, the company has expanded its definition of "community". Initially only defined geographically, the company's collaborations have incorporated religious communities, workplace communities, and age-based communities. Rauch moved to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. On June 14 of the same year, Garcés put the "rapid response theater" concept into action with staged readings from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" in protest of the eviction of the South Central Farmers from a privately held plot of land that had been used as a community garden.