Award for Wakenshaw's Fringe mime show

New Zealand mime comic Trygve Wakenshaw has won a Seoul Arts Award for his new Edinburgh Fringe show, Silly Little Things.

The accolades were set up last year to celebrate and the global cultural exchange of performing arts without language barriers.

Wakenshaw – whose mime-clown-comedy show is his first in seven years – was the only comedy recipient this year.

He said: ‘It’s a pleasure to be back at Edinburgh Fringe after several years away. This has been the premiere season of the new show, and now I can see in the show the influence the past seven years have had on the way I make things.

‘I’m so thrilled with the audience and critical response to the show, and I’m very proud to have been selected by the Seoul Arts Award for this prize. I have performed in Seoul and Busan in the past, and have some lovely friends in both places.’

The other 2024 recipients are: La Clique, Gravity & Other Myths - Ten Thousand Hours, Recirquel Cirque Danse - Paradisium, Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck - Bill's 44th.

Read our review of Silly Little Things here.

Published: 13 Aug 2024