Containing a distillation of his thoughts and pratice over a working life of more than forty years, Mamet explores many of the holy cows of contemporary theatre. Performance art, Stanislavsky, creative writing classes, issue plays, political theatre, politically correct theatre, subsidised theatre and elitists all fall under his mischievous and critical gaze. Calling for the death of the director and the end of acting theory, Mamet champions the supremacy of the world and the actor in his provocative and hugely entertaining manifsto.