1955, A Plea for Mime
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, ...
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“Prunella”
This programme puts me in a conundrum. There is no mention of Elsie Fogerty’s Central School, yet I think there is a connection. This performance of Prunella was given at the Swanley Horticultural College in ...
Performance at Aldwych Theatre, June 1937
The Stage, London3 June 1937 Performance at Aldwych Theatre, 1937 After Irene Mawer’s death, a book of newspaper clippings was found among her papers. This blog post is one in a series of posts tracking ...
Duke of York’s Theatre. May 1937
Dancing Times, LondonMay 1937 Duke of York’s Theatre. May 1937 This newspaper article was, I think, written by someone from the publicity department of the Institute of Mime, as opposed to being written by an ...
Art of Unspoken Drama, Goldoni. 31 May 1937
The Times, London 31 May 1937 THE ART OF UNSPOKEN DRAMA, Goldoni. 31 May 1937 It is rather exciting to see that Irene Mawer received acknowledgement in The Times newspaper, even though it is a ...