commedia dell’arte – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

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, Eileen Varley, had been a student at Ginner-Mawer and was obviously in favour of the

January 3, 2023 Biography / Blog / Mime / voice

“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 1916. In Marion Cole’s book about Elsie Fogerty, she states that when Irene Mawer was

May 10, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime

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 the evolution of the Institute of Mime, through the information in the log of newspaper

May 3, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime

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 independent journalist, as it is word for word the same as articles written elsewhere. The

April 26, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime

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 pre-prepared article seen in at least one other newspaper. The article gives advance notice of