Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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High Peak News, 27 August 1938 A long newspaper article detailing the forthcoming events at this festival in Derbyshire, tells us that one of Miss Mawer’s students would be presenting classes there. Irene Mawer got on well with Jane Ruscoe and they became close friends and co-workers. In 1938 Jane,
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Drama, London, February 1938 Miss Mawer kept every single cutting that she could – no matter how small. This one relates to a small drama society in Blakeney, in Norfolk. The main content of the piece relates to the activities of the society and which plays they presented. Finally, the
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Worthing Herald, 6th November 1937 This newspaper clipping is very unusual in that it is a photograph, and it shows a scene from one of Irene Mawer’s mime plays – but she is not in it. The play was put on by the Worthing School of Dramatic Art, who presumably
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Birmingham Daily Gazette, 27 April 1937 When Pamela Chapman opened her school in September 1936 in Birmingham, one of the first guest lecturers was Irene Mawer. Miss Chapman was excited to announce at the Three Counties Club, that Miss Mawer would be giving a lecture which promised to attract a
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Unknown newspaper, 10 February 1937 For a while, mime was quite popular in Worthing – a seaside town on the south coast of England. The person promoting it was Peggy Evans – a graduate of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. This newspaper article is based on Miss Mawer’s
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