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

By Arifa Akbar · The Guardian Culture

Harold Pinter theatre, London Young stars perfectly encapsulate the uncompromising nature of first love in Robert Icke’s production 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 . Continue reading...