ABSTRACT
If I could have, I would have asked Michael Chekhov: What do you believe is the most important factor in your method? Instead, I asked my teacher, Deirdre Hurst du Prey, Chekhov’s student and secretary for 20 years. ‘That would be Truth’, she answered. This is a big idea, but simple enough. The difficulty is in keeping it simple. Once it gets complicated the truth becomes more and more elusive. I want to speak from this place of simplicity, where I found my own truth, because useful acting techniques can only be about one’s own truth, the truth one is experiencing in the moment.
