Actors in the company were cast in both large and small roles and, in the theatre's early years, they also served alongside the founder as staff members.
Adamson, who remained artistic director until 1989, directed more than 100 productions of plays by a wide range of playwrights for the company.
In 1973, the company implemented the repertory format it maintained in subsequent decades and received some of its first wide acclaim, for a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
When they left in 1999, Shattuck and Hupp were replaced by David Fuller, who had been an actor with the company in the Something Cloudy, Something Clear era.
[8] In 2007, in the midst of difficulties with its finances, audience base and artistic reputation, the company was renamed The Exchange and set out to produce new works.