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Tom Holland is swarmed by crowds of adoring fans as he leaves the theatre following a performance of Romeo & Juliet on the West End

Tom Holland was swarmed by fans as he left the theatre after a performance of Romeo & Juliet in London on Saturday night.

Spider-Man Tom Holland was never going to have much difficulty scaling the walls of the Capulets¿ villa in Verona to reach Juliet¿s balcony in Shakespeare¿s love story. But in the event, Jamie Lloyd¿s daringly dirgeful production, which opened in the West End last night, only requires him to reach the giddy heights of a microphone stand. Yes, this new production of Romeo & Juliet is a typical example of Lloyd celebrity minimalism ¿ following in the footsteps of James McAvoy in Cyrano and Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard.

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