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Nice Fish 2016

Opened: November 25, 2016
Closing: February 11, 2017

Nice Fish - 2016 - West End History , Info & More

Harold Pinter Theatre
Panton Street London SW1Y 4DN London

Direct from a sold out season in New York, Academy and Bafta

Award-winner Mark Rylance returns to the West End to perform in Nice

Fish, a hit new comic play written by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins and directed by Claire van Kampen.

On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season and on the frostbitten, unforgiving landscape, two old friends are out on the ice and they are angling for something big, something down there that is pure need, something that, had it the wherewithal, would swallow them whole.

Mark Rylance, in a unique collaboration with critically-acclaimed Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins, draws on his teenage years in the frozen winters and culture of the American Midwest. Nice Fish is an ice fishing expedition where the ordinary and extraordinary collide. The full New York cast will transfer to London for this limited season. Ron (Mark Rylance) and Erik (Jim Lichtscheidl) play the odd couple, whose ordinary lives are comically exposed in this sublimely playful, profound and very funny play. Kayli Carter,

Bob Davis and Raye Birk join them on their journey across the pond to

perform in Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter theatre this winter.


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NICE FISH, Starring Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, Enters Final Month in the West End
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2017


Audiences have just four weeks left to see Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins' celebrated comic play, Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End. The production, directed by Claire van Kampen (Farinelli and the King) and staring Academy and BAFTA Award-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, The BFG), must end today 11 February 2017 following a strictly limited season.

NICE FISH, Starring Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, Enters Final Month in the West End
by BWW News Desk - January 11, 2017


Audiences have just four weeks left to see Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins' celebrated comic play, Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End. The production, directed by Claire van Kampen (Farinelli and the King) and staring Academy and BAFTA Award-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, The BFG), must end on Saturday 11 February 2017 following a strictly limited season.

BWW Review: NICE FISH, Harold Pinter Theatre, 25 November 2016
by Debbie Gilpin - November 26, 2016


After the Harold Pinter Theatre had its final Sunny Afternoon in October, it is now home to Nice Fish for a limited run. Coming over from a sold-out season at New York's St Ann's Warehouse, the play is a unique collaboration between Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, an American prose poet.

Nick Hern Books Will Publish NICE FISH Alongside Mark Rylance-Starring UK Premiere
by Marianka Swain - October 31, 2016


Leading theatre publisher Nick Hern Books (NHB) has acquired the rights to publish Nice Fish, the new play by multi-award-winning actor Mark Rylance and acclaimed prose poet Louis Jenkins, alongside its UK premiere in November.

Nice Fish History

Other Productions of Nice Fish

2016   Off-Broadway New York City Premiere
Off-Broadway
2016   West End West End Transfer
West End

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