Mark Rylance goes from success to success: Jerusalem on stage, Wolf Hall on TV and Bridge of Spies and The BFG on film. At the Tony Awards he delivered a prose poem by Louis Jenkins instead of making an acceptance speech. Rylance and Jenkins have now got together to write Nice Fish, which has transferred from New York.
Two anglers sit on a frozen lake in Minnesota, fishing, chatting, philosophising. It’s not a play; it’s a collection of monologues and duologues. But it’s not a revue; it’s a quilt of prose poems and black-outs. It’s humorous, it’s oddball, it’s eccentric, it’s absurdist and it’s fishy. Bits are funny. But a lot of it is not funny and boring.