Buxton Drama School

High Peak News, 27 August 1938

A long newspaper article detailing the forthcoming events at this festival in Derbyshire, tells us that one of Miss Mawer’s students would be presenting classes there.

Irene Mawer got on well with Jane Ruscoe and they became close friends and co-workers. In 1938 Jane, on behalf of the Institute of Mime, presented a course in mime and stage movement. She also held classes in dramatic speech.

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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