[ad_1]
Lionel Hahn/Getty Images
Tom Holland will take on the Bard this spring when he plays Romeo in director Jamie Lloyd’s West End production. Romeo Juliet.
Lloyd and Holland made the announcement this morning. Romeo Juliet will run at the Duke of York’s Theater from Saturday 11 May to Saturday 3 August. Additional casting, including Juliet, was not announced, nor was it announced whether the production will follow the path of Lloyd’s other hits, including stripped-down stagings of A doll’s house starring Jessica Chastain and Treason with Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton, to name two, with an eventual transfer to Broadway.
Holland, though best known for his lead role in the Spider-Man film franchise and, more recently, as the star of the Apple TV+ limited series. The room full of peopleIn fact, he began his show business on stage, when at age 11 he landed a supporting role in the West End production of Billy Elliot: The Musical. She eventually took on the lead role.
“Tom Holland is one of the world’s greatest and most exciting young actors,” Lloyd said in a statement today. “It is an honor to welcome him back to the West End.”
Holland did not comment, but posted a striking graphic video on his Instagram page, showing a photo of the actor, tinted, at times, blood red, with the words “Violent delights have violent endings” flashing below. The sinister quote comes through Friar Lawrence in Romeo Juliet.
See it below.
The creative team for the Jamie Lloyd Company production, which will feature text edited by Nima Taleghani, will include: set and costume design by Soutra Gilmour; Lighting design by Jon Clark; Sound design by Ben and Max Ringham; Video design and cinematography by Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom; with music composed by Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante.