Gyllenhaal Stalls Romeo Plans???

When - and in what - will we see Hollywood young gun and Whatsonstage.com Best Newcomer Jake Gyllenhaal (This Is Our Youth) back on the West End stage? For several months now, we've assumed it would be in another Laurence Boswell-helmed production, Romeo and Juliet (See The Goss, 6 Jun & 4 Sep 2003). To that end, Variety has recently reported that, for the project, Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers would be reset in modern Manhattan and given a rock-n-roll backing track. The US industry newspaper also tipped Hollywood's Lynn Collins to play Juliet to Gyllenhaal's Romeo in a co-production between Boswell and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, with seasons in Chicago and possibly New York after London. However, today's edition of the Daily Mail suggests the project may not be quite so straightforward, or immediate. Gyllenhaal, who's currently filming the screen version of Proof in London (See The Goss, 20 Oct 2003), told columnist Baz Bamigboye that, although he wants to work with Boswell again and they have indeed been talking about R & J, "we may do another play in London before we get to the Shakespeare". Let's just hope it's something somewhere soon.

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