A night in the 80's performance evening

The evening began with us in the restaurant in which we had to be in character. I noticed once we sat down at our tables; my mother said I never should sitting at one table and stags and hens at the other table. We began to interact with one another and it worked well. My character was Doris aged 61 and I was implying that stags and hens were being too loud in a humorous manner as we had our young Rosie with us and that they needed to be aware of that. Also I noticed a few of the guests who were in couples looked slightly uncomfortable where they were sitting as I dont know if they knew our reason or purpose for sitting where we were.

I think if it had been a larger restaurant it would have been better to have interacted although I dont think it needed any more character's walking around than there were that evening.
I feel if the guests had been given a programme describing what they were attending and the character's and the evening's line up this may have made more sense.

I felt the evening went really well. Our play was at the end of the evening. In Scene three with Kat and I, it felt as if we really in character and the dynamic between us flowed really well. I was focusing my attention to the details of being Doris age 5 and aware of the physicality, I played with my hair and i felt more fidgety and restless. In my speaking line, 'Truly? Let's go and look', I jumped up on to my feet and was exciteable.
In Scene five I felt I managed to project my voice well over the sound of the lawnmower and hopefully my sense of irritation and impatience towards Jack came across too.
Doris in this scene felt serious in my character,concientious and caring. At the end of the scene Doris displayed her feelings of anger towards Margaret as she had been hasty to get a temping job and consequently had lost the baby. Doris snatched the painting from Margaret implying the importance and relevance of the fact that the painting was for Jack and that he wanted something from his grandchild.
In scene six i was sitting in my chair on the side whilst Bobbie, Michelle and Kat were in the scene.
Despite my concern about my nerves in performance I managed to recite my lines and was pleased that I did it which gave me confidence.

The intention of performing our plays were to introduce an insight in to the period of the 1980's, showing examples of social behaviour, class distinction, social conditioning, social poverty and trends of the time, together with gender and social issues, behaviour and psycholigical patterns of behaviour. Firstly we introduced 'Bouncer's and 'Shaker's in the restaurant environment followed by 'stags and hen's' and 'my mother said i never should' in the theatre.