Janet Fizz Curtis – Page 40 – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

Rose Bruford and the Institute of Mime

Among the papers left at the time of Miss Mawer’s death in 1962 there is an anonymous typescript which sounds as if it was written by Miss Mawer, or someone close to her. It is dated 1954 – which is just the moment when Irene Mawer moved to the Birmingham

January 5, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime

Pageants. Mark Edward Perugini

Pageants What, you may ask, have British pageants got to do with Irene Mawer? Indeed, what is a pageant? Until I learned that Irene Mawer’s second husband was involved in pageants, I had never given them a thought. It turns out, that once I had done some research, I had

December 29, 2020 Biography / Blog / Mime

Mrs Durling. Mrs Gregorious Brown. Yorkshire

When I was in my early twenties, I failed to realise the histories of the older people around me. After all – they were just that, old! Some thirty five years later, I now of course realise that all old people have amazing histories. They all have stories to tell,

December 22, 2020 Biography / Blog / Mime

Good News (Sir David Attenborough)

David Attenborough – Handwritten Reply to My Letter Well… big grin. No! Massive grin! A most wonderful, wonderful man has written me a letter. A handwritten letter, no less. What an absolutely superb human being, who, at 93 years of age and supremely busy, took time to reply to me.

December 15, 2020 Biography / Blog / Mime

Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama 1947-1954 (Cheltenham: Rotunda and Playhouse)

Dancing barefoot and free, beneath the huge domed roof of the Rotunda must have been an exhilarating experience. During the previous one hundred years distinguished socialites had whirled around the ballroom, but from 1947–1954 the Ginner-Mawer students danced on the wooden floor with bare feet, bare legs and bare arms.