Mark Rylance Talks Poetry and Ice Fishing

Zipped into an orange snowsuit, red puffer jacket, orange balaclava, and lace-up snow boots, the actor Mark Rylance was sweating a little during a technical rehearsal of “Nice Fish,” which opened last week at St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn. He was trying to do two things at once: collapse a blue nylon tent in a high wind during a five-second stage blackout, and dodge huge snowballs that shot across the stage like bowling balls. Rylance, a man who offstage radiates an almost spectral equanimity, was mildly exasperated.