Complication Everything the audience needs to know to understand the play. It sets the action in time and place and makes the audience acquainted with the characters;it reveals the situation they are in,initiates the conflict to be developed,and it may introduce foreshadowing to hint at the resolution.Complication Everything the audience needs to know to understand the play. It sets the action in time and place and makes the audience acquainted with the characters; it reveals the situation they are in, initiates the conflict to be developed, and it may introduce foreshadowing to hint at the resolution