I am an egregiously unlikely reviewer for this commemorative volume on the history of New Theatre: I have rarely seen any theatre. Memory is so difficult: as a child of Communist parents, I sort of recall attending with my mother a New Theatre play in Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, in Sydney, down from Kings Cross; also visiting backstage at I think a Waterside Workers Federation hall at the end of a play, my mother wished to say hello to Evelyn Docker, a prominent leftwing actor, and she introduced me to her, I picture a little boy staring at her, mesmerised.