Sadie Sink to make West End debut in 'Romeo and Juliet'

Sadie Sink, who will play Juliet, recently starred in the Tony Award-nominated John Proctor Is the Villain on Broadway, which transfers to the Royal Court next year.

Summary

• Sadie Sink will make her West End debut in Romeo and Juliet
• She stars opposite A Quiet Place actor Noah Jupe
• Robert Icke will direct Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers

Stranger Things star Sadie Sink will make her West End debut in a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Robert Icke. Performances will begin at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 16 March, running through 6 June.

Sink, who will play Juliet, recently starred in the Tony Award-nominated John Proctor Is the Villain on Broadway, which transfers to the Royal Court next year. Her Romeo will be Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place, Le Mans ‘66), who is making his professional theatre debut.

Jupe plays Hamlet in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet film, which opens this month, and he also appears with Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman in the forthcoming second season of BBC drama The Night Manager.

Sink returns to the role of Max Mayfield later this month in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things and she will also star in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Director Icke has had recent success on both sides of the pond with his production of Oedipus starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

Sink said: “I was a Broadway kid, so I’ve always dreamed about doing a show in the West End. To get to do that in one of Shakespeares’s most famous plays under Rob's direction with Noah will be such an exciting challenge. London theatre has this incredible energy, and I can’t wait to be a part of it.”

Jupe said: “Theatre is something I’ve always been intrigued by. It seems like such a challenging and rewarding experience for an actor. So I was very excited to hear about this project. The combination of Romeo, Rob and Sadie is an opportunity you simply cannot turn down.”

Icke added: “This is one of the plays I’ve returned to again and again, and the opportunity to tackle it in London with two wonderful young actors is hugely exciting. It’s an explosive play, filled with heat and life, which confronts us with the fragility of our lives are and the momentousness of every last second. I can’t wait to get started.”

The creative team for Romeo and Juliet will include set and costume designer Hildegard Bechtler, lighting designer Jon Clark, sound designer Tom Gibbons, and video designer Ash J. Woodward.

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Photo credit: Noah Jupe and Sadie Sink. (Photo by Helen Murray)