This book trains improvisation and creativity and ignites the passion for acting. George Tabori writes in his afterword: "Johnstone's essay, written with refreshing British pragmatism, is recommended not only for theater makers but also for politicians, gangsters, businesspeople, educators, schoolchildren, housewives, and especially lovers: all of us who are connected through the clashes of competing wills. After studying the great art and our small lives, Johnstone affirms conflict as the central fact of both existence and play; a natural law, essential for private and public dramas. His questions once again link existence and performance.