susan pearson – 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

June 20, 2023 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Miss Joyce Ruscoe

From an article in The Link, July 1934, p.6, we learn that there was to be a Summer School of the Central School of Speech Training at the Royal Albert Hall. It was to be attended by delegates of the Drama League. The inaugral lecture-demonstration in Mime was to be

August 1, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime

Overview of Institute of Mime. December 1937

Dancing Times, London December 1937 THE INSTITUTE OF MIME Irene Mawer gathered together a scrapbook full of cutting from newspapers, charting the progress of the Institute of Mime, which she founded in 1933. The attached photo shows an article printed in 1937 which gives an overview of