Nice Fish
- Full Length Play, Drama, Experimental, Contemporary
- 4M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573705984
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.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Experimental
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Exterior Set
- Cautions: Gun Shots, Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
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.
REVIEWS:
"Mr. Jenkins's seemingly modest writing, attuned to close observation of everyday experience, contains, beneath its homely surfaces, larger meanings that glide softly into your mind and heart, like those elusive fish swimming beneath the ice."
The New York Times
"Nice Fish is a great catch [...] its whimsical observational humor is consistently amusing."
The Hollywood Reporter
"It's a compact, unpretentious play [...] But it's Jenkins' poetry - that laconic voice, extending provocative thoughts and unexpected insights - that hangs in the air at the end of the show."
Variety
"Nice Fish is a whimsical, ultimately resonant portrait of lost souls waiting to hook or be hooked."
Time Out New York
"Brilliant [...] The writing is stunning [...] The language is just gorgeous."
The Observer
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 1F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
RON - Single. Employed. Knows little about ice fishing. Around 50 in age. Old high school friend of Erik's. From Wisconsin.
FLO (FLORENCE) - An independent woman. Wayne's Granddaughter.
WAYNE - A devoted spear fisherman. A widower, retired, mid 60 to mid 70 in age. Flo's Grandfather.
DNR MAN - An Officer from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
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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. |
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