{"id":10258,"date":"2025-11-18T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:34:27","slug":"stranger-things-star-sadie-sink-sets-west-end-stage-debut-in-romeo-juliet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=10258","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stranger Things\u2019 Star Sadie Sink Sets West End Stage Debut In \u2018Romeo &amp; Juliet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    <strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Stranger Things<\/em>\u00a0star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sadie-sink\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sadie-sink\" data-tag=\"sadie-sink\">Sadie Sink<\/a> will make her London stage bow as Juliet in a production of\u00a0<em>Romeo &amp; Juliet\u00a0<\/em>that hot director Robert Icke will helm in March, Deadline can reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    But soft \u2014 who is her Romeo? Icke and producer James Bierman have picked <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/noah-jupe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_noah-jupe\" data-tag=\"noah-jupe\">Noah Jupe<\/a> (<em>A Quiet Place, Le Mans \u201866<\/em>) to play the love-hungry teen besotted with Juliet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Gotta say, they appear just right as the star-crossed lovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Jupe, who plays Hamlet in Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hamnet<\/em>\u00a0movie that opens this month, will be making his professional theater debut. The actor also appears with Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman in the forthcoming second season of BBC drama<em>\u00a0The Night Manager<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Sink, who plays Max Mayfield in\u00a0<em>Stranger Things<\/em>, is a creature of the theater, having played in the musical\u00a0<em>Annie<\/em>\u00a0on Broadway when she was just 10 years of age. A year later she portrayed Princess Elizabeth, who would grow up to become Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II, in Peter Morgan\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Audience<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    <strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/hamnet-trailer-paul-mescal-jessie-buckley-chloe-zhao-shakespeare-1236497855\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236497855\">\u2018Hamnet\u2019 Trailer: Jessie Buckley &amp; Paul Mescal In Tragic Backstory Of The Bard\u2019s \u2018Hamlet\u2019 From Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/lists\/tony-awards-nominations-2025\/\">Sink received a Tony Award nomination<\/a> for her lead role in Kimberly Belflower\u2019s\u00a0<em>John Proctor Is the Villain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   aligncenter size-large aligncenter lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((683\/1024)*100%)\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">Sadie Sink (on desk) and cast of \u2018John Proctor Is the Villain\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\" lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey lrv-u-font-size-10 lrv-a-font-basic-xxs lrv-u-margin-l-025\">Julieta Cervantes<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Sink is what\u2019s known as a\u00a0<em>proper<\/em>\u00a0actress. Sure, she\u2019s in a big television hit and she\u2019s presently shooting<em>\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em>\u00a0until the middle of December, but the theater is her home; it\u2019s a place she seeks out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Bierman saw Sink in New York in\u00a0<em>John Proctor Is the Villai<\/em>n \u201cand thought she was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    He adds that she \u201chas real, great stage presence and obviously has grown up on stage\u201d because of\u00a0<em>Annie<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Audience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Bierman and his Empire Productions produced Suzie Miller\u2019s\u00a0<em>Prima Facie<\/em>, which won Jodie Comer countless prizes including a Tony and an Olivier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    <strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/tessa-thompson-becoming-hedda-1236605875\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236605875\">Breaking Baz: Tessa Thompson\u2019s Scorching \u2018Hedda\u2019 Is A Woman \u201cIn Charge Of Her Own Destiny\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    He says that Texas-born Sink\u2019s initial meeting with Icke lasted four hours. \u201cAnd then she just threw herself in and did some workshop sessions with Rob, working on the language and text. And it grew organically from there really, that this was the play, this was the role for her. \u2026 As I say, it felt incredibly organic, very much from the ground up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    \u201cAnd we\u2019re just very fortunate that the stars\u00a0have aligned because this sort of period of time that she was actually available to do something corresponded with the\u00a0Harold Pinter Theatre\u00a0being free,\u201d Bierman explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Performances of<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Romeo <\/em>&amp;<em> Juliet<\/em>\u00a0will start on March 16 for a limited 12-week run through June 6.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   aligncenter size-large aligncenter lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:768px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1024\/768)*100%)\">\n<p>                        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TIFF_DEADLINE_2025132463.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"768\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">Noah Jupe at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\" lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey lrv-u-font-size-10 lrv-a-font-basic-xxs lrv-u-margin-l-025\">Deadline<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    <em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u00a0<\/em>is scheduled to open on July 31. There has been much speculation about <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/sadie-sink-spider-man-movie-1236323300\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236323300\">the role Sink has<\/a> in the Spidey film, and frankly, I do not know the answer, but I do know that she\u2019ll join the cast of the next\u00a0<em>Avengers<\/em>\u00a0picture that shoots here in London later in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    <strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/sadie-sink-broadway-stranger-things-spider-man-1236404315\/\">Sadie Sink Talks \u2018John Proctor Is The Villain\u2019, \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 And Joining The Marvel Universe \u2013 The Deadline Q&amp;A<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0<em>Romeo &amp; Juliet<\/em>\u00a0was the first play that Icke directed professionally back in 2012, and Bierman says that Icke has \u201cunfinished business\u201d to resolve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    \u201cI think for Rob, it\u2019s about trying to explore, actually within the play, the question of time \u2026 and how there\u2019s a running motif in the piece about time and how everything\u2019s moving very, very quickly,\u201c Bierman says. \u201cAnd potentially, if it didn\u2019t move so quickly, they wouldn\u2019t have the outcome they have. And so he wants to explore it through the prism of time and time running out and just sort of hint at what might have happened if Romeo arrives half an hour later, he might find Juliet awake. But he doesn\u2019t. That\u2019s what makes it so tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Icke enjoys thoroughly examining classic play texts to help him explore new ways of presenting the piece. A case in point is his stunning contemporary production of\u00a0<em>Oedipus<\/em>,\u00a0which takes place on an election night. It was a hit in London with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, and producer Sonia Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/oedipus-broadway-mark-strong-opening-date-1236441045\/\">just opened it on Broadway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    <strong>RELATED: <a data-id=\"1236501206\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/broadway-fall-preview-2025-1236501206\/\">Broadway Fall Preview 2025: Stars Of Stage, Screen And Magic Take NYC (With The Muppets Along For The Ride)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    While Icke\u2019s been working in New York, Sink and Jupe have been conducting line readings of the play with him via Zoom from London. Rehearsals for<em>\u00a0Romeo &amp; Juliet <\/em>will begun in late January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   aligncenter size-large aligncenter lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:683px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1024\/683)*100%)\">\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sadie-Sink-Headshot-Credit-Caitlin-Cronenberg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">Sadie Sink<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\" lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey lrv-u-font-size-10 lrv-a-font-basic-xxs lrv-u-margin-l-025\">Caitlin Cronenberg<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    The creative tram will include\u00a0set and costume designer Hildegard Bechtler, lighting designer Jon Clark, sound designer Tom Gibbons and video designer Ash J. Woodward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Casting directors Julia Horan and Jim Carnahan will liaise with Icke for further casting when he returns to the UK in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    I ask Bierman whether there\u2019s any likelihood of\u00a0<em>Romeo &amp; Juliet<\/em>\u00a0making its way to New York\u00a0at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    He\u2019s quite sensibly cautious. \u201cI think, well for now, I think that\u2019s kind of it. And it\u2019s also \u2014 we\u2019ve just filled this nice gap before the next\u00a0<em>Spider-Man\u00a0<\/em>movie comes out, and then [Sink is] busy again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    Both he and Icke are excited with how Sink has jumped into working on the part. \u201cJuliet as a character has a lot of agency in it, and there\u2019s a lot more of an active journey for her that sometimes doesn\u2019t come out.  \u2026 She\u2019s lived quite a sheltered life, and her parents are trying to marry her off to Paris,\u201d Bierman tells us. \u201cAnd she\u2019s realizing that maybe that\u2019s not her fate, but maybe there is a way out of that, that you don\u2019t just have to accept this. And then enter Romeo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n    It\u2019s an opportunity to explore \u201ca Juliet with dynamism and agency,\u201d he declares.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/sadie-sink-romeo-juliet-london-west-end-noah-jupe-1236620879\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Stranger Things\u00a0star Sadie Sink will make her London stage bow as Juliet in a production of\u00a0Romeo &amp; Juliet\u00a0that hot director Robert Icke will helm in March, Deadline can reveal. But soft \u2014 who is her Romeo? Icke and producer James Bierman have picked Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place, Le Mans \u201866) to play the love-hungry &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Stranger Things\u2019 Star Sadie Sink Sets West End Stage Debut In \u2018Romeo &amp; Juliet\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=10258\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Stranger Things\u2019 Star Sadie Sink Sets West End Stage Debut In \u2018Romeo &amp; Juliet\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stranger-Things-Star-Sadie-Sink-Sets-West-End-Stage-Debut.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10260,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions\/10260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}