It’s the last day of ice fishing season and a couple of old college friends: Erik and Ron reside in the remote North Woods of Minnesota. It’s the perfect excuse to go on the ice and pass some time waxing poetic on life, mortality, aging, and the Romantic nature of the Upper Midwest, while crushing a few Labatt’s to stay hydrated.
Nice Fish was developed by notable clown, film actor, and first Artistic Director of the New Globe Theater in London: Mark Rylance, using text borrowed from Louis Jenkins, a Minnesota-based prose poet, at the Guthrie Theater in 2013.