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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Author: Janet Fizz Curtis

Janet Fizz Curtis is trained in the Irene Mawer Method of Mime and Movement and is now writing a book about the life of Irene Mawer.

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