l'enfant prodigue – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

Let’s Not Pretend – Mawer’s Technique

For some time, I have been struggling with how to tell you what Miss Mawer’s mime technique was like. I have been looking for ways to describe it in words. I still haven’t found my answer, but I think the following critical review of one of her performances might go

October 10, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Leslie French

Was he, or wasn’t he? That is the question. Was Leslie French trained at Ginner-Mawer, or wasn’t he? According to his obituaries, he wasn’t (or at least they don’t mention Ginner-Mawer), but then again the two obituaries that I have looked at also give different dates for various moments in

May 30, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Felicia Mallet

Felicia Mallet (1863-1928) was a French woman who taught mime to Elsie Fogerty (1865-1945), who in turn ‘let fall’ nuggets of knowledge to Irene Mawer (1893-1962) when she was a pupil at Fogerty’s Central School in England during World War One. According to Wikipedia, Mallet was a comedian, singer and

May 16, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Cercle Funambulesque

Unless otherwise stated, the quotes in this blog post are from an article written by Irene Mawer in The Link, which contained the newsletter of the Ginner-Mawer School of Mime and Movement, Miss Mawer wrote an article about a group of French theatre people called the Cercle Funambulesque (1). From

March 14, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Frascati’s

In 1937 the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama celebrated its 21st birthday. By this time Miss Mawer had been married, widowed, married again, lived through a World War, worked with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in The Trojan Women, and also in Medea, published The Dance of Words, visited