Nice Fish review – Mark Rylance reels them in with kooky comedy

Harold Pinter theatre, London
Rylance plays a goofball novice on an ice-fishing trip in a play that feels derivative and slides into absurdismMark Rylance and Louis Jenkins have fashioned a play out of the latter’s prose poems that shows two men ice-fishing on a frozen lake in Minnesota. If it sounds odd, that is precisely what it is. In the course of 90 minutes the play offers random meditations on life, love and death that in its homespun whimsy reminded me of Garrison Keillor’s mo