Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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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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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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