Character Immersion or Yourself

[Matt Lukes]

I can only speak theoretically since I'm not technically a reenactor myself, lacking a group, but I'd probably go for largely a 'situational' method as Matt Amt described- fully in character when demonstrating with other 'Romans', but myself when dealing with 'the public'. I wouldn't consider calling each other by character names as fully in character and probably would do so since it adds to the flavour when kitted out, but I don't think it'd go beyond a bit of fun...