It seems like "whimsy" is the word of the week - a couple of days ago it was
a particularly Welsh brand of it, now it's an American version brought to life by Mark
Rylance, himself very much an English eccentric (in fact this play only makes me
find more plausibility in
Weez' theory that Rylance isn't actually an actor, but a
collection of small woodland creatures standing on each other's shoulders in a
coat,) who actually grew up in America.
Nice Fish is by US writer Louis
Jenkins, whose poems Rylance has a habit of reading out in lieu of acceptance
speeches for his many awards, and it definitely feels like what it is: A collection
of existing writings strung together, rather than a narrative. Erik (Jim
Lichtscheidl) has gone out onto a frozen Minnesota lake to fish through the ice, and
brought with him Ron (Rylance,) who'll be keeping him company but has no interest in
fishing himself.
