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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Romeo and Juliet review – overbearing directorial stamp saved by Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe’s chemistry

Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe in Romeo and Juliet. A bed is central to Hildegard Bechtler’s stage design. Photograph: Manuel Harlan/PA

Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle when a star from a hit TV series steps on to the West End stage in a production that runs contemporaneously with an adaptation of that same TV series? Sadie Sink, better known to Stranger Things fans as Max Mayfield, performed her West End debut while a prequel to the Duffer Brothers’ series played up the road, at the Phoenix theatre.

It may seem like the Netflixification of the West End, but Sink began life as a theatre actor – and earned a Tony nomination in the US for John Proctor is the Villain, currently at the Royal Court for its London run.

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