1st December 2020
Today, Tuesday 1st December 2020, is the 58th anniversary of the death of Irene Mawer.
Here is a very brief timeline of Irene Mawer’s life. There WERE of course many more events in Irene’s life, and I have picked out just of few of them:
TIMELINE
- 13 March 1893 born
- Age 16 1909 Irene’s father died
- 1900-1910 Putney High School
- Age 19 1912 acted in a play with Robert DALE
- 1914 auditioned for Elsie FOGERTY’s school
- 1915 Entertainment Secretary of Pivot Club Age 23
- 1916 debut performance as Harlequin Age 23
- 1 Mar 1917 married Robert Jacomb Norris DALE
- 1918 RJND died (killed in action in the war)
- 1920 “Trojan Women” & “Medea” with Sybil THORNDIKE
- 1925 published “The Dance of Words”
- 1927 performed in four Commedia Del’Arte plays (including the role of Priscilla)
- 1928 performed “L’Enfant Prodigue”, “The Changeling” & “Peppe Nappa”
- Age 37 Sep 1930 married Mark Edward PERUGINI
- Age 37 1930 GM company visited Greece
- 1932 published “The Art of Mime”
- 1933 published “Twelve Mime Plays”
- 1934 performed a ‘revival’ of “L’Enfant Prodigue” to raise money for the Institute of Mime
- 1930s Regents Park Performances 1936 Ginner-Mawer Dancers appeared on BBC television
- 1936 costume designer for “Artemis and the Muses”, etc
- 1936 performed in “The Flood” pre-WW2 Ginner-Mawer Summer School held at Stratford-upon-Avon
- 1939-45 World War 2 – moved to Boscastle
- 1947 moved to Cheltenham
- 1948 gave talk and demonstration at Cheltenham Literary Circle
- 1948 Mark PERUGINI died
- 1954 Ginner-Mawer School closed
- 1954 Senior Tutor and Lecturer, Birmingham
- 1959 retired and moved to Blewbury
- Age 69 1962 died of a stroke
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