Trygve Wakenshaw
29 March 2015
The Tuxedo Cat
to 19 April
comedyfestival.com.au
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Trygve Wakenshaw is another performer whom I've heard nothing but great about, and I wasn't going to miss him this year.
He's from New Zealand and now lives in London. He was nominated for a Barry and a Golden Gibbo Award at last year's Comedy Festival and has brought us a new show called Nautilus.
It's still a work in progress (maybe), so changes to suit each audience. When I went, it was a bit too long and needed a tighten, but this didn't make it any less impossible to stop watching. It made me really want to see his other shows and anything else he does.
Wakenshaw's a physical comedian. Ok, he's a mime. And if the M word leaves you with show-trauma memories that you don't want to re-live, he'll banish them and leave you wanting an I HEART MIME sticker.
Dressed in pink, ribbed, high-waist leggings and a green jumper with added white tassells, he opens the show sinking into a black plastic bin; the line between genius and WTAF is slim.
There isn't a narrative, but there are stories about fish and sea critters, one about the massive logic gap in Rapunzel, and some that leave the audiences looking away from the grossness that isn't there. And it's all tied together with a character who becomes more intriguingly irresistible with each voiceless moment.
A long row of star fish: the nice ones, not the ones eating the Great Barrier Reef.
PS: Trig-vee (thank you his website)
There's a version of this on aussietheatre.com.au.
