Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Belfast Telegraph 11 December 1937 DRAMA SCHOOL IN BELFAST. Well-known Experts on Production and Acting In modern terms, we might call this a ‘pop-up’ drama school. Organised by the rural Development Council of Northern Ireland, the School comprised three sessions, one during the evening, and two the next day. Both
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Helga Burgess; British Drama League Theatre World, London. The Amateur State supplement. April 1937 News and Topics In 1937, the British Drama League held the eleventh London Easter Drama School. One of the people conducting classes was Miss Helga Burgess, of the Institute of Mime. Helga’s classes were in Mime
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Drama, London Dec 1936 British Drama League 1936/1937 – Conference of Educational Associations The photo accompanying this blog post shows a newspaper cutting from December 1936. The cutting comes from a book of cuttings collated by Irene Mawer, charting the progress of the Institute of Mime, which she founded in
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Birmingham Mail 20 March 1935 WOMEN’S INSTITUTES: Spring Programme for Warwickshire Hidden among news of a forthcoming cookery class, we learn that ‘chief instructress’ Miss Irene Mawer was due to offer an ‘interesting occasion’, ie, a one-day school of mime. The location was to be at the Priory Room in
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This is another in a series of blog posts which are based on newspaper articles. Among Irene Mawer’s papers left at the time of her death, was an A4-sized hardback book, full of these cuttings which give us a good overview of much of Irene’s career. This newspaper cutting is
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