Stanislavski was very concerned with actors getting distracted by the audience whilst performing on stage, so he looked for was to counteract this distraction. However he did not want the actors to forget about the audience or try to forget their existence, as he thought that would contradict the art of theatre because the audience was a vital 'co creator ' of the performance.

His main need aim was finding a way to get the actor to focus on something else (eg. An object) on stage as to rid the stigma of the audience 's presence. Stanislavski thought that if actors observed the object thoroughly enough, a desire would ignite to do something with it; in turn intensifying observation and helping develop action. Crucially, he realised that