Nice Fish (NHB Modern Plays)

On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need. Something that might just swallow them whole. In Nice Fish, celebrated actor Mark Rylance draws on his own teenage years in the American Midwest, in a unique collaboration with critically acclaimed Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins and the whole company. This sublimely playful, profound and very funny play transferred direct from a sell-out run in New York to the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Claire van Kampen and starring Rylance and Jim Lichtscheidl. 'A whimsical, ultimately resonant portrait of lost souls waiting to hook or be hooked' - Time Out New York 'Deliriously funny' - Variety

Mark Rylance is one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. He has played many of the great Shakespearean roles, both for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as actor manager of Shakespeare's Globe. He has won numerous awards for roles in London and on Broadway, most famously in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, in which he created the role of Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015).