Trygve Wakenshaw
- From New Zealand
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Over 100 more shows added to Assembly's Edinburgh Fringe line-up
Summer is on the way and the festival season is hotting up, with Assembly Festival announcing a further 110 shows for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th March 2024Trygve Wakenshaw interview
The Kiwi comedian and mime on the things that make him laugh the most.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 17th January 2020Trygve Wakenshaw: Only Bones v1.4 review
Trygve Wakenshaw's solo show packs plenty of creativity into a bare-bones staging but ultimately feels self-indulgent.
Dave Fargnoli, The Stage, 13th January 2020Trygve Wakenshaw review
The New Zealander's minimalist Only Bones v1.4 combines the spellbinding and ridiculous but ultimately seems unsure what it wants to be.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th January 2020Trygve Wakenshaw interview
A New Zealander living in Prague, Trygve Wakenshaw is no ordinary entertainer. At this year's London International Mime Festival, he is taking on the challenge of making a show with only one light. Nick Awde finds out more.
Nick Awde, The Stage, 6th January 2020Review: Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan
A celebration of ridiculousness that reduces the simplest elements of office life to outright absurdity.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 10th January 2018Edinburgh festival 2017 - in pictures
The Edinburgh festival 2017 is still going strong with unlikely film stars, black-history monologues and toddler comedy sidekicks - here's a selection of the latest shows photographed by Murdo MacLeod.
Murdo MacLeod, The Guardian, 19th August 2017Edinburgh's comedy double acts
Trygve Wakenshaw has brought his one-year-old son as a sidekick, Flo and Joan search for love and Giants present the old disintegrating duo routine.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 17th August 2017Trygve Wakenshaw interview
We talk to the New Zealand comic about his two Fringe shows, one starring his theatrical partner Barnie Duncan and the other his 13 month old son.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 4th August 2017Why not try something a little out of the ordinary?
Some odd shows.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 4th August 2017