Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

The Times, 25 August 1938 This newspaper clipping is quite long, and gives detailed information about the work of the British Drama League School and the previous year’s Theatre Festival in Buxton. This year they intended to hold a school on similar lines in the Playhouse. It is clear that

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,

Worthing Herald, 6th November 1937 This newspaper clipping is very unusual in that it is a photograph, and it shows a scene from one of Irene Mawer’s mime plays – but she is not in it.  The play was put on by the Worthing School of Dramatic Art, who presumably

Birmingham Daily Gazette, 27 April 1937 When Pamela Chapman opened her school in September 1936 in Birmingham, one of the first guest lecturers was Irene Mawer. Miss Chapman was excited to announce at the Three Counties Club, that Miss Mawer would be giving a lecture which promised to attract a