While Jamie Lloyd’s productions often involve mad celebrity casting of the sort you’d never have expected to see in your lifetime – see his imminent US production of ‘Waiting for Godot’ starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter – he also has go to actors, and it’s a pleasure to see two of them join forces for this middle-aged ‘Much Ado’.
MCU veterans Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have never actually shared the screen in any of the Marvel films, but they’ll share the stage nightly for a couple of months in the second half of Lloyd’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane season of Shakespeare, playing bickering lovers Benedick and Beatrice. Hiddleston previously starred in Lloyd’s revival of Pinter’s ‘Betrayal’ in the West End and Broadway; Atwell has been in two of Lloyd’s earlier productions, ‘The Faith Machine’ and ‘The Pride’.
We don’t specifically know what to expect beyond their casting, but it tends to be the way with Lloyd that the topline celebrities are the only ‘names’ in his casts; he’s also been going through something of a live video ‘phase’ (though to date that’s only actually been two shows). Further details including an on sale date are TBA.
