Alicia,
 
Up to the end of August I was in charge of 16 animators (costumed
interpreters) on a replica of a seventeeen century vessel of war in the Old
Port of Montreal, Quebec. We succeeded  to attract more than 93,000 visitors
in the first summer (1993) and about the same amount this summer.
 
The experienced is very well receive by the public. The animators have to
personnified 3 types of characters: aristocrat, bourgeois and the sailors.
They are using a lot the old French language and expressions. Sometime the
guides in the aristoctatic role has to defend their position because the
public specially the young one do not agree with all the advantages that
such a class of people had.
 
I must apologize for my bad English but if you woulf like to ask more
question about this type of experience conducted in Montreal I would be
please to answer you.
 
I also have the name of a reference person in Montreal who is an expert in
the formation of these guide.