ABSTRACT
Truthuful on the stage does not means that we conduct ourself as we do in ordinary life. Truthfulness in those terms would be sheer triviality. There is the same difference between artistic and inartistic truth as exists between a painting and a photograph: the latter reproduces everything, the former only what is essential; to put the essential on canvas requires the talent of a painter. That is why our first concern is with the building of a solid runway, compounded of physical actions made concrete by their own truthfulness. Actually there are no physical actions divorced from some desire, some effort in some direction, some objective, without one feeling inwardly a justification for them; there is no imagined situation which does not contain some degree of action of thought: there should be no physical actions created without faith in their reality, consequently a sense of truthfulness.
