Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Morning Post, London 4 March 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: ‘Wordless Drama of Conviction: two and a half hours of silent charm.’ My comments: Two and a half hours of silent charm! Two and a half hours without any words? That is a l-o-n-g time. That show must have been
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Edinburgh Evening Dispatch 4 March 1935 Even the tiniest newspaper article was of interest to Irene Mawer. This one, is another which relates to the performance or performances given in Scotland during March 1935. We learned from previous accounts that students from Edinburgh took part in the performance given in
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Mimes of Many Periods Part of the role of the Institute of Mime (which was founded by Irene Mawer) was to enable mime performances to take place around Britain, with all participants working to the same high technical and expressive standards. In this newspaper clipping (see attached photo), we read
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Birmingham Mail 21 Feb 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: Mime We have seen from my recent blog posts that Irene Mawer, through her Institute of Mime in association with the Women’s Institute (WI) gave lecture-demonstrations in Scotland and in York. Today’s newspaper clipping gives us advance notice that the
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Sussex Daily News 13 November 1933 The Oldest Art: mime demonstrated at Brighton Roedean is a private, fee-paying school in the south of England. This newspaper clipping describes a mime demonstration there, given by Irene Mawer. Reading this newspaper article in conjunction with the newspaper article described in my previous
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