Finding Fish
Illusion Theater
Star Tribune- Somewhat Recommended
"...“Finding Fish” often feels like a lecture on oceanic pollution and sustainable fishing practices with a family drama welded onto it, along with a bit of mythology-inspired science fiction."
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Ed Huyck
Twin Cities Pioneer Press- Somewhat Recommended
"...The good news for this production is that it's hard to imagine those lines being said by a more committed cast. I've seen Bill McCallum in lots of roles but I've never seem him do anything like his desperate, guarded Peter. Jennifer Blagen lays it all out there, both physically and emotionally, as Fiona, who is by turns captivating and off-putting. And Steve Hendrickson has played plenty of these spent, peevish types but his choices in "Finding Fish" feel specific and thoughtful."
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Chris Hewitt
Aisle Say Twin Cities- Recommended
"...Finding Fish at the Illusion Theater is a labor of love for playwright Carlyle Brown, who lived a seafaring life for over twenty years on the Maine coast. A commission to write a play about the sustainability of Maine's fisheries led to this work, which imagines a future world in which much of the coast is underwater and consumable fish a rare commodity. The play is well written, superbly acted and raises important points about fish management and ecology. On a human level, the play shows what happens when family members take opposite sides of an issue where the stakes are so high."
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Christine Sarkes
Talkin Broadway- Somewhat Recommended
"...Director Noel Raymond does as good a job of knitting the story together as possible, given the flaws in the basic concept. Some points feel overly blunt, as if the audience might by chance not pick up on the familiar conflicts among these characters. Any play in which a character's proclaimed course of action is followed at once by a thunderclap and lightning bolt, (having had no sign of rough weather to this point), leading other characters to blurt out "Not in this weather, you're not!," leaves little room for a director to deal with subtleties."
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Arthur Dorman
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