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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