You can play and pause both a batch audience and an interactive activity configured with an audience .
You can pause a Playing audience, which causes it to assume a Paused state (via Pause Requested and Pausing), temporarily ceasing activity within the audience.
You can play a Paused or Stopped audience, which causes it to assume a Playing state (via Resume Play Requested).
Note that undertaking these actions at the audience does not affect the status of the workflow as a whole.
Note also that an audience will assume a Paused state if its audience contains a block set to pause before playing.