Dulce et Decorum Est
The stimulus for this piece was the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. It is about the 2nd world war and what happened during gas attacks. It explains that the saying is a lie and why. It describes the terrible conditions that the soldiers are in. The poem then goes on to describe one man's death from gas attack and finally gives Wilfred Owen's opinion on "The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" This means "it is a sweet and appropriate thing to die for your country.
In our act of this poem, we used mime instead of dialogue to tell the story of the poem. This had a lot of impact on the audience because it made them concentrate more on the visualisation, of our faces and the act, rather than concentrating on the dialogue. As a performer, I found it harder to do this scene than other scenes that had been improvised with dialogue. This is because I had to use my facial expressions and my characteristics to show the meaning of my part and the poem. Because we had no script or dialogue to work with, it made the cast and I concentrate more on the way we express the feelings involved to the audience. This made the action more significant because there was no speech. It was a lot harder to communicate the story with out using dialogue because again we had to use the power of our face and body language to make the audience interpret the scene.
The stimulus for this piece was the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. It is about the 2nd world war and what happened during gas attacks. It explains that the saying is a lie and why. It describes the terrible conditions that the soldiers are in. The poem then goes on to describe one man's death from gas attack and finally gives Wilfred Owen's opinion on "The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" This means "it is a sweet and appropriate thing to die for your country.
In our act of this poem, we used mime instead of dialogue to tell the story of the poem. This had a lot of impact on the audience because it made them concentrate more on the visualisation, of our faces and the act, rather than concentrating on the dialogue. As a performer, I found it harder to do this scene than other scenes that had been improvised with dialogue. This is because I had to use my facial expressions and my characteristics to show the meaning of my part and the poem. Because we had no script or dialogue to work with, it made the cast and I concentrate more on the way we express the feelings involved to the audience. This made the action more significant because there was no speech. It was a lot harder to communicate the story with out using dialogue because again we had to use the power of our face and body language to make the audience interpret the scene.