The Times, 1934 This performance of L’Enfant Prodigue at the Westminster Theatre, London was a fund-raiser for the Institute of Mime. The reviewer opens the article with the following comment “One of the more obvious duties of the Institute of Mime is at frequent intervals to refresh our memories of
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Morning Post, 7 June 1934 Unusually, I have included an article which does not mention Miss Mawer. However, the newspaper clipping is in Miss Mawer’s private collection – so it must have been important to her. Further down the clipping, she has underlined a paragraph, which gives us the clue
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By the time this article was published in 1933, Classical Greek Dance (which was known as Revived Greek Dance) would be approximately 20 years old – with many of the early years being spent in developing and improving the technique. The opening comment demonstrates that it was still fairly uncommon
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Successful Recital of Mime unknown newspaper, 1928 In the lead up to Christmas, Miss Mawer presented a long and varied programme of mime. The reviewer felt that the evening’s entertainment was perhaps a little over-done, being a “…long and somewhat exhaustive programme.” The reviewer also felt that the results of
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The Sketch, 1928All English L’Enfant Prodigue The author (JTG) of the newspaper review was tickled pink to have an all-English cast of six performers, who they praised very highly: “To say that the English actors gave a performance of rare unity, subtleness and power is no exaggeration. If Miss Irene
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Hi Everyone. Apologies for missing the blog post last week – I am concentrating so hard on getting my Irene Mawer book out, that I don’t even know what day it is. This is a short update to let you all know that my book is coming along extremely well –
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11 December 1959 Aberdeen Evening Express, Scotland The woman in this newspaper article is described as a member of the educational speech training staff – does this perhaps refer to speech therapy? She is Miss Joy Scaling and she lived in Scotland, where several of the newly trained speech therapists
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18 August 1955 The Stage In 1955 a letter was printed in The Stage, Britain’s leading theatre publication at that time, one year after the closure of the Ginner-Mawer School. The writer of the letter, Eileen Varley, had been a student at Ginner-Mawer and was obviously in favour of the
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Hello to everyone who is checking in from the CGD link. Thank you for coming to see the Irene Mawer page. I had a fabulous time at the Festival Finals and it was wonderful to finally see live Classical Greek Dancing. I was entranced for the whole day. The only other time
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When the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, (now known as the Birmingham School of Acting) first opened in 1937, Irene Mawer was the first of the guest lecturers. Miss Mawer lectured on mime, and brought some of the Ginner-Mawer girls with her to demonstrate her theories. This
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