Tom Holland stuck in heinous London ‘Romeo and Juliet’: ‘2.5 hours of my life I will never get back’
nypost.comA Doll’s House” with Jessica Chastain, “Betrayal” with Tom Hiddleston, and the incoming (and excellent) musical “Sunset Boulevard” starring Nicole Scherzinger.Predictably, his latest show is a grab bag of his favorite tricks: Live video screens, black clothes and ceaseless whispering at the expense of emotion and drama.Before “Romeo and Juliet” starts, and during intermission, the Duke of York Theatre’s lights are dimmed — a woman next to me used her cellphone flashlight to read the program — and the house is pumped full of loud “nntz!
nntz” club music.I asked an employee how audience members have reacted to the oppressively thumping tunes. “They’ve cried!” the worker said.Lucky them.
I shed zero tears during this should-be tragedy about two infatuated youngsters torn apart by a longstanding family quarrel.
From start to finish, the production trades love and ferocity for bells and whistles.In fair Verona where we lay our scene, there are not only two households both alike in dignity — there are two video cameras both alike in pointlessness.
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