As informal educators in a project, we may get shouted at or abused. This may be because we have had to ask a difficult question with regard to someone's behaviour or experience. The names we get called can be quite hurtful - at least until we remember that asking the question arises out of the role we have to play. We can at least reassure ourselves with the thought that the remark is essentially directed at us in role, rather the sort of person we are. Goffman also introduces one further element - the team.
Performances often depend on other, like, actors.
Within the walls of a social establishment we find a team of performers who co-operate to present to an audience a given definition of the situation. This will include the conception of own team and of audience and assumptions concerning the ethos that is to be maintained by rules of politeness and decorum. With these teams there are places where they prepare performances and places where they perform. What this adds up to is that not only do we have to put ourselves in a role we also have to be accepted by others in that role. We cannot work with people unless they accept us as a worker .