BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FRINGE 2014: KRAKEN Is Like Watching Dali Performing Marcel Marceau

Reviewed by Christine Pyman, Thursday 27th February 2014

Trygve Wakenshaw is the love child of John Cleese and Mr Bean, with Michael Leunig as his great aunt. There is no other explanation for it.

The almost surreal journey that is Kraken starts at the Grand Central Train Station that is the Tuxedo Cat nightclub, with a staff member directing groups of travellers to different venues, up and down stairs and street, until you come to the intimate space that becomes your entrance to a different world.

With gentle charm and humour, this physical mime artist draws you into his domain, using his body in ways that seem impossibly double-jointed and flexible, using only some minimal props, and his prodigious talent.

Delightfully naïve, with a hint of sexuality, Wakenshaw will charm every one of his viewers as he flies seamlessly from one cameo to the next, and all the time keeping the audience entranced. His brilliant poseur postures echoed the circus strongman, and included every archetype of mimicry associated with this, resulting in a multilayered, meaningful performance.

Searching for self, recognition, and partners to people his world, ultimately inclusive, Wakenshaw is a performer not to be missed.

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