Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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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
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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
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Unknown newspaper, 10 February 1937 For a while, mime was quite popular in Worthing – a seaside town on the south coast of England. The person promoting it was Peggy Evans – a graduate of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. This newspaper article is based on Miss Mawer’s
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Drama, London, April 1935 This tiny article was very important to me as it finally explained why students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) were performing at the show given by the Institute of Mime. It also explains why the Central School were there, as well as Ginner-Mawer.
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Dancing Times, London, April 1935 The performance described in this review was given by the Institute of Mime, with the theme of mime in different times and different countries Cast members seem to have been mainly connected to Ginner-Mawer, but also included students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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