At last a history, thirty-two years after the event, of the Australian Performing Group (APG), albeit in the form of highly personal ‘recollections’ from Tim Robertson, one of the group’s stalwarts. The Pram Factory is a handsome, large-format book, containing many wonderful photographs recording the young radicals of the 1970s who created Australian theatre history.

It is a mixture of enthusiastically recalled and possibly exaggerated recollections of unique creative practice, and useful facts in its appendixes, including a chronology of productions, and a Who Was Who alphabetical list. The latter is fun to read, full of comic wit and irony, but, in persistently wisecracking, Robertson ducks the opportunity to demonstrate how pervasive the influence of the group, through subsequent careers of all kinds, has been on Australian cultural life.