The Pram Factory was the umbrella under which a rough-and-ready Australian theatre revival was produced amid the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll of Carlton in the 1970s. This is a first hand account of how a bunch of quite ordinary people created an extraordinary institution. An amusing, idiosyncratic chronicle, it reveals the characters, kitchen politics, lifestyle and modus operandi of a unique theatre collective whose influence continues to reverberate in Australia’s theatre, film and television industries.
Tim Robertson was educated in Western Australia and taught drama at Antioch College (USA) and Flinders University (SA) before becoming an actor/writer/director with the Australian Performing Group. His writing credits include Mary Shelley and the Monsters, Manning Clark's History of Australia: The Musical, and Gillies and Co.