Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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During the Second World War, the Ginner-Mawer School evacuated from London to the tiny village of Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall. The school year followed the normal academic year, with the usual long summer vacations. Presumably the war made it difficult, or impossible, to hold the annual
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Mystery surrounds the National Trust car park in Boscastle. The car park came to my attention when I was told that the original land – Valency Fields (a green and unspoiled area of grass), had been donated to the National Trust by Nancy Sherwood, longstanding member of the Ginner-Mawer family.
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Colour Theory Costume design and production were another two areas where Irene Mawer excelled. In her book Rhymes and Plays for The Bobblies (Bobblies being small children) she gives a wonderful description of how she envisaged one of the scenes. On this occasion, the scene was a religious depiction of the
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Theatre Pie An unusual title, and one that I have never liked, but I think was suitable for the times. There is no date on this flyer, but the blurb states that the Ginner-Mawer School is in Chaltenham, so it was around 1950. Theatre Pie was a title which Ginner-Mawer
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For some time, I have been struggling with how to tell you what Miss Mawer’s mime technique was like. I have been looking for ways to describe it in words. I still haven’t found my answer, but I think the following critical review of one of her performances might go
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