I think that it would be fairly difficult to balance concentration on stage with appropriate level of audience awareness as it is difficult to concentrate on the performance without ignoring the audience. In the same way, it would be difficult to focus on the audience without losing concentration of the performance. As Stanislavsky recognised the audience as co-creator of the performances it shows that the audience are very a very important part of theatre and to forget about them during a performance would truly be contradictory to the art of theatre. However I can understand how Stanislavsky could feel that basic ability and talents could be lost in front of the audience as performance can be better when rehearsed because the actors don’t
