Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Lilian Braithwaite. This clipping from Irene Mawer’s collection relating to the Institute of Mime refers to Miss Lilian Braithwaite who was opening the event’s Easter Drama School of the British Drama League. I have yet to discover who Lilian Braithwaite was. The venue was King’s College Of Household
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Getting slightly out of sync with my blog posts, these two newspaper articles are from July 1937 and describe the “Mime Parade” show on 13 July 1937 at the Aldwych Theatre which I have written about previously. According to Drama London, the show presented both spoken and silent mimes –
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Belfast News Letter 13 December 1937 This newspaper clipping (see photo) covers a ‘pop-up’ drama school which I have written about in the previous few blog posts. However, for the first time, there is a hint that the event was not as popular as might have been hoped “…there were
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Belfast News Letter 11 December 1937 ULSTER DRAMA SCHOOL: Art of Mime and Planning of Production The initial event of the Drama School workshops received praise from the Belfast News Letter. On the Friday evening, the lecturers were Miss Helga Burgess and Mr Howard Hayden. Miss Burgess, a Fellow of
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Belfast Telegraph 11 December 1937 DRAMA SCHOOL IN BELFAST Ooh, I bet Irene Mawer was not pleased when she read this article printed in the Belfast Telegraph. At the top of the article, the first word of the first line under the heading is ‘deportment’. I recall chatting with Ann
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