The Great Deconstructionist [by James Wenley] In the context of the Comedy Festival, one of the most subversive things you can do is take piss out of the stand-ups. 2014 Fred Award winner Trgyve Wakenshaw, through one of his many characters that makes up Nautlius, takes to this with glee. He mimes the indulgent stand-up who sticks a microphone in an audience […]
My Favourite Moments of the Year [by James Wenley] With stages empty and the theatrical year in blackout, I’ve planted myself in front of my computer to reflect on the performances that have provoked, challenged, and bought a smile to my face this past year. I’ve already written about happenings this year extensively, in Playmarket’s 2014 Annual (read online) and Metro’s […]
The Theatre Beating Movement [by James Wenley] If you saw only one show at this year’s Comedy Festival, I hope it was Kraken. Trygve Wakenshaw’s solo psychical comedy/what-even-is-this? imaginative tour-de-farce was quite unlike anything else at the Festival. In a show that sees him strip completely bare, not once, but twice within the opening minutes, and not even begun to […]
Have to be there [by James Wenley] Trygve Wakenshaw’s character ponders at the top of the show if he is a fisherman, who dreamt he was a squid, or if he was a squid, who dreamt he was a fisherman. I have a question for Wakenshaw: Does he do physical clowning because he has a well-suited body, or has his body […]
Mad Science [by Dionne Christian] Okay, recently I wrote of the joys of taking kids to the theatre and of seeing their faces “light up” as they connect with what they’re seeing on stage. Of course, the converse is when they react badly: they shout that they’re bored, they wriggle and jiggle and ask when it will be over, they’re […]
Grape fun [by Matt Baker] Constantinople has a rich and impressive history, a history that is manhandled to fit the mold for Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan’s show of the same name. Though some of the facts are true, the majority of the storyline is warped to accommodate a series of bizarre scenes including a horse and his physiotherapist, Rod […]
An Experience Not to be Missed (And If You Did, It’s Too Late, Shame on You) [by Rosabel Tan] Crowded at the bottom of the stairs to the Wintergarden are a chorus of ladies (and a few men) in togas. As we descend, one of them kisses us on the cheek, another offers us grapes, and yet another points us […]
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