Hysterical Tears, “Fran Is Our Juliet” T-shirts & Tomdaya Stans: Inside The Opening Night Of Jamie Lloyd’s Gritty ‘Romeo & Juliet’

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Vogue breaks down the biggest takeaways from Tom Holland & Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’s turn in ‘Romeo & Juliet’ in the West End.

To attend the opening night of Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo & Juliet in the West End is to be met with a gaggle of Tom Holland fans lining St Martin’s Lane, hoping to catch a glimpse of their Spider-Man-turned-Romeo and Zendaya in the flesh, out to support her boyfriend in a vampiric Vivienne Westwood gown. The circus outside the Duke of York’s theatre, however, is nothing compared to what’s happening inside.

After all, the original text is a tale of unmatchable woe, misunderstandings and murder. What better setting than a bare stage that centres the acting and the production team’s creative engineering? Tom and Fran were a perfect pairing Forget what the naysayers naysay. For my part, I went in concerned that I wouldn’t be able to fully immerse myself in the show – that I could only see Tom Holland as Tom Holland, not as Romeo – and that it would all just fall a little bit flat.

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