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Fish

October 16, 2026

Set in London in the summer of 2016, when Brexit looms and the world seems to be tilting toward a new and more openly hostile political order, "Fish" follows a young woman whose efforts to escape the claustrophobia of her private life lead her into an international web of radicalism, deception, and potential catastrophe. The play’s many concerns do not always coalesce as seamlessly as they might, and some of its metaphors announce themselves rather too emphatically, but its humor, emotional intelligence, and increasingly unnerving sense of danger make it a distinctive coming-of-age drama. [more]

Fish

April 12, 2024

Aside from its attempt to cover too much at one time (drug addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, high school dropouts, gun violence, lack of health care, underfunded ghetto schools), "Fish" does not tell us anything we don’t already know. It will come as no surprise that public schools teach to the test, truancy is a big problem and students fall asleep in class after working jobs at night to help pay the rent, or that charter schools are better funded than public schools. Nor does it have any answers other than that teachers should be more understanding of students’ home situations and help to do something about inadequate facilities and supplies – other than pay for missing supplies themselves. [more]