"When the Royal Court recently announced that it would stage the UK debut of the hugely hyped Broadway smash John Proctor is the Villain, I'd wondered if the show's UK lead Sadie Sink might come over with it. The answer, it would seem, is a resounding 'no' as the Stranger Things star has, delightfully, announced she'll be doing a totally different play in London at the same time, starring in a new production of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet directed by Brit auteur Rob Icke."
"The youthful Sink will, naturally, play Juliet, one half of Western literature's most famous doomed couple with Romeo, who'll be played here by the even younger Noah Jupe, who is probably best known for playing Marcus, the middle child in A Quiet Place and its sequel. He makes his stage debut opposite Sink, who is more of a theatre veteran: the flame-haired actor made her own debut over a decade ago in the title role of a Broadway production of Annie."
"Although Icke is an enthusiastic rewriter of the classics, he rarely touches Shakespeare's language, but does often impose quite radical new interpretations of the action onto the likes of and Player Kings (his mash-up of Henry IV parts 1 and 2). His productions are always modern dress, and generally artsy but in an accessible way, and tend to be stacked with a recurrent core crew of British stage actors (though expect more fresh faces for the play's sundry teenage characters)."
Sadie Sink is cast as Juliet in Rob Icke's London production of Romeo & Juliet, with Noah Jupe making his stage debut as Romeo. The pairing juxtaposes Sink's theatre experience with Jupe's younger screen profile. Icke typically modernizes classical works while largely preserving Shakespeare's language, offering radical reinterpretations of action and contemporary, artsy staging. The production is expected to mix a recurrent core of British stage actors with fresh faces for teenage roles. The revival follows recent high-profile Romeo & Juliet stagings and promises a distinct, auteur-driven take on the centuries-old tragedy.
Read at Time Out London
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