Chapter 11 of An Actor Prepares is about Adaptation. The chapter is about being able to adapt your emotions to what is happening on the stage, just like the real life. Even though you already know what is coming next in the script, you need to be able to fake it well enough to fool the audience (and your scene partner) into believing that this is all very real. These actions need to appear as they would in real life. One way for this to go wrong is if an actor pays too much attention to the audience's reaction, as opposed to his scene partner's; which I have seen happen too many times in my experience.
And as a final thought on this chapter:
"Finally there are actors whom nature has maltreated by endowing them with monotonous and insipid, althought correct, powers of adjustment. They can never reach the full rank of their profession."
^^ Keanu Reeves, anyone? :)
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