Sadie Sink & Noah Jupe to start in ROMEO & JULIET on the West End

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 10:19am

Robert Icke directing; Will open at the Harold Pinter Theatre on March 16

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 10:51am

Moving on from the Lloyd production real quick.

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 11:02am

sir, another Gen Z ROMEO & JULIET has just hit the theatre 

[CopleyScott17]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 12:20pm

Judging by his performance in Hamnet (don't miss it!), Jupe is perfect casting. The last 20 minutes are devastating, in large part due to him.

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 4:46pm

kind of odd she is doing this at the same time John Proctor Is The Villian is premiering in London

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 8:29pm

She has nothing to do with that production, so don't really see how it's odd. Noah is extraordinary so I'm sure he'll be great in this, not that we need yet another Romeo & Juliet, but perhaps two actors with chemistry will sell it better.

[blaxx]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 9:06pm

Curious only because it's Icke.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 9:23pm

quizking101 said: "sir, another Gen Z ROMEO & JULIET has just hit the theatre"

With all due respect to your significant contributions to this board, which generation would be more appropriate for the two title characters? I assume you don't mean Gen Alpha, which at least 13-year-old Juliet would belong to if shifted to 2025.

 

Updated On: 11/18/25 at 09:23 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 10:35pm

kdogg36 said: "quizking101 said: "sir, another Gen Z ROMEO & JULIET has just hit the theatre"

With all due respectto your significant contributions to this board,whichgeneration would be more appropriate for the two title characters?I assume you don't mean Gen Alpha, which at least 13-year-old Juliet would belong to if shifted to 2025.

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I just think three internationally commercial productions in two years is just too much. While acknowledging it’s a classic, it’s been done to death and needs a minute to sit out. It just bums me out that they could probably use their followings to promote newer works (like Sink did with JPITV) and producers decide that they want to take this route. What is Icke going to do differently than Lloyd or Gold?

I was so irritated by the end of the bizarro Zegler/Connor R&J, that I was elated that they both had died and I could finally leave.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 4/5/26 at 7:55am

‘Romeo and Juliet’: Sadie Sink, Noah Jupe and the Wonder of Young Love

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/theater/romeo-and-juliet-sadie-sink-joah-jupe-robert-icke.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.iHI7.BXuLGES5GnnW&smid=nytcore-android-share

[east side story]

Posted: 4/5/26 at 8:26am

CopleyScott17 said: "Judging by his performance in Hamnet (don't miss it!), Jupe is perfect casting.The last 20 minutes are devastating, in large part due to him."

Jessie Buckley would like a word with you.

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 4/5/26 at 9:19pm

Great review, which makes me want to see the production just for the two leads.  I'm also curious about how there has been such prevalence in doing R+J in recent years (don't forget Shakespeare in the Park is doing it as well) and I wonder why that is (Gen Z actors being old enough to have achieved a following but young enough to still pass as teenagers?).  I suppose there's also something to be said about the impending doom of what kind of world there will be for young people to inherit and the idea that odds are stacked against them.

I appreciated the Sam Gold revival for what it was trying to do, but it seemed like it commit too much to the style of the show that he forgot actors need to be coached in how to deliver Shakesperean verse, and it sounds like this production may fare better.  Though Icke may be one show away from having the ticking clock becoming "his thing" as Jamie Lloyd has the "leading man bloodstained in boxers" moment.