Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Of ice and men

Plus: with The Sewing Group – a ponderous homily on culture and society – the Royal Court has ceased to be a theatre at all

issue 03 December 2016

  • Nice Fish

    Harold Pinter Theatre, until 11 February 2017

  • The Sewing Group

    Royal Court

An ice floe. Two anglers. Months to kill. That’s the premise of Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins. The off-beat script is full of bleak and quirky insights. Rylance, who stars as the bungling Ron, admits that sometimes he gets so bored he bangs nails through frozen bananas.

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