Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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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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6th December 1933 Birmingham Daily Gazette There has been some conflicting information as to when the Ginner-School of Dance and Drama was first established. I have gathered together a body of evidence to prove that the date was, in fact, 1916 and this newspaper cutting will be added to my
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10 December 1927Perthshire Advertiser (Scotland) Although only a few lines long, this newspaper article is really sweet and extremely complimentary to Irene Mawer – it compares the joy of seeing Mawer to the joy of seeing the famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova. That is some comparison. (It is not suggesting that
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23 March 1927 The Era Girls’ Realm Guild Matinee The first item mentioned in this clipping is A Miracle of Saint Caterina, a mime play by Irene Mawer, which was one of her favourite and most well known pieces. A few years hence from this particular performance, the
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30 December 1911Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press 1911! Irene would have been 18 years old and possibly about to fall in love for the first time… She was due to appear in the play His Excellency the Governor at the Town Hall in Buckingham. It was this play, performed again
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