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 ...
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Nobby Sealyham
Among Irene Mawer’s papers left after her death, there are two photographs of a small, white dog. His name was Nobby and I think he was probably a breed of terrier called a Sealyham. It ...
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 ...
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 ...
Central School Curriculum in 1930s.
Central School in 1930s. Irene Mawer trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1914/15/16. Mawer had done some training and had taken paid employment before enrolling at Central, so ...