I believe that it must be difficult to balance audience awareness within the actors performance for many reasons. Firstly, the aim of incorporating the audience into the performance means that its easier for them to empathise with the characters and feel involved in the performance, thus adding to the overall affect. However this could lead to actors getting distracted by the audience around them and especially new actors found it difficult to block out the audience enough to perform confidently yet without loosing their presence. Also ways of doing this involved techniques such as direct address or breaking down the fourth wall to communicate a message to the audience, Stanislavski was a true believer in realism therefore speaking directly
