Category: Biography

Did Irene Mawer make an impact upon the world? If you check on-line for Twentieth Century female mimes then you would barely even know that Miss Mawer existed. This is a failing of modern technology, and perhaps, also of Irene Mawer herself. Irene spent fifty years making her mark, but

If Irene Mawer were still alive, she would be a very old lady indeed – in fact, on 13 March 2021 she would be 128 years old! Irene Rose Mawer was born on 13th March 1893; the sixth and final child of affluent parents in the Wandsworth area of Surrey.

London Sculptor, Chris Kenny often uses found objects (in this case, twigs), to create works of art.  www.chriskenny.co.uk As soon as I saw these photos on Facebook, I made a mental connection with Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner. My instant thought was ‘frieze lines’! The twigs are photographed on a

Finding information about which books Irene wrote, and when they were published, is quite difficult. My research on-line just leads me to modern companies who are re-publishing what seems to be every book in the world, at a price. Unhelpfully, all of their books are listed as having been published

In last week’s post, I spoke about Irene Mawer’s approach to creating a mime play for children (Chapter 3 of The Art of Mime). This week I look at the final segment of that chapter, which focuses on how to use a mime play as a teaching tool. This mainly