When actors are performing on stage for an audience there can be many distractions which could ruin there performance. Stanislavski believed that if the actors observed an object with intensity, they would become interested in it which would help them develop an action with it. Although Stanislavski didn’t want his actors to easily become distracted by the audience, he didn’t advise that the actor forget the audience, or believe they didn’t exist. He thought that would be contradictory to the art of theatre because the audience was an important ‘co-creator’ of the performance. Stanislavski believed that when an actor stood on stage they would lose control of their basic faculties and would have to be re-taught how to achieve this in public.
