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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...

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