Direct Address

Direct Address occurs when an actor and/or Character addresses the audience directly from within the context of the play. Direct Address breaks the Fourth Wall, and if your play includes it, audiences should be ready to expect it as one of the Given Circumstances about how reality works in your play's world. A common way to set up this expectation is to make a play entirely out of a character directly addressing the audience - a monologue.

Actions on the Audience?
Since Direct Address can come in the form of asides, and syliloquoys that might seem to interupt the flow of a play, you may wonder "how can they contribute to the Action?" It's a good question. You may find yourself unable to answer that question, in which case, you may want to edit your Direct Address out. However, don't go chopping it out just yet.

If you have a character who's interested in saying things to the audience, the probability is that they care about what the audience thinks. They want the audience to react a certain way. They may be causing things in the story to impress, scare, or enlighten the audience.

Essentially, if this is what your character seems to be doing, it sounds like you may have a character who's Action simply targets the audience, rather than another character. In this kind of play, with the Fourth Wall sufficiently broken, you can include the audience as a character in the play world - except you can't script its reactions. Though, you can usually count on an audience not wanting to participate in the onstage story. They usually will freeze up and sit firmly in their seats if you ask them to come onstage.

This Action has all the same qualities as any other Action - Stakes, Motivation, it arises from Given Circumstances, etc.

For a monologue, Conflict, Obstacles, and a Resolution all have to be generated in a world where there is only one character, and an audience. Some monologues feature an invisible character that the main character is speaking to, which makes creating the Conflict easier, since it is more like a two-person scene, where the audience only sees and hears one person. In some monologues, the character speaks to themselves, taking differing sides on an Inner Conflict that's been eating away at them. And then, in some monologues, a character honestly wants something from the audience, and will try different Tactics to get it.