How I differentiation between characters

Within a lot of acting and performances, especially ones of which I've witnessed and watched myself, theatre and film, it is easy to tell a good actor from a bad actor, in interviews with the actor you can see how they are like in reality, though on stage if given a character not alike to them, they should be able to differentiate between what they are like themselves and their character, which is why it is vital to be relaxed and do your breathing exercises before you do a performance or a rehearsal, as you need to get into the right frame of mind to drop your own characteristics and concentrate solely on what your character's characteristics are. For example, Jenny is naturally a very sweet, kind and ever so slightly shy person in reality and she had to get into the character of an old, wise, loud and serious woman who knows everything there is about vampires, now, all though Jenny is very into "Walking dead", and can probably tell you everything there is to know about it, she may not know about vampires in as much detail as Van Helsing would, so therefore she may have to do a fair amount of research about vampires and where vampires came from, to get into the mind set of her character, these things would help people get into the mind of their character, research on what they are like is vital.

How I differentiated myself from my character (Lucy) 

Lucy is a very young acting, sweet, innocent girl. In age, she is older than me, yet acts younger than me, I think Lucy out of all the characters of which I have played, is by far one of the hardest, she is very loud and I feel although I am good at projection, perhaps struggled with her energy and loudness, something of which I worked on continously throughout the rehearsals, voice work is vital in all acting and breathing exercises helped me significantly.

Naturally I do not act younger than my age, so it was a case of striking a balance between playing someone a year older than me, while playing a 7 year old, this balance was difficult to keep, but I think I succeeded in the final performance.

Sadism played a vital role within this play and a lot of people's characters were sadists, something of which would have been very taboo in the Victorian era, this links to Autaud's Theatre of cruelty as it was showing what victorians would have found very uncomfortable, for they wouldn't understand why someone would like to inflict pain upon others for sexual pleasure.

So someone playing this role as a sadist would have portray a significant difference, for instance Michelle on the other hand played a masochist similar in concept but someone of which derives sexual pleasure from one's own sexual humility, as she, herself is not one, so she had to work harder to show how she liked having "Hot" food thrown over her and how she liked to be scolded, this can be scene in the sentence "You scolded me", in which she is smiling, the smile signifiies how in actuality she likes being hurt as it gives her pleasure. Little things such as facial expressions are so, very important.