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Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle when a star from a hit TV series steps on to the West End stage in a production that is running contemporaneously with a stage adaptation of that same TV series? Sadie Sink, better known to Stranger Things fans as Max Mayfield, performed her West End debut while Stranger Things: First Shadow played up the road, at the Phoenix theatre, in a prequel to the Duffer Brothers’ series.

It may seem like the Netflixification of the West End, but Sink actually began life as a theatre actor – and earned a Tony nomination for Broadway’s run of John Proctor is a Villain, currently at the Royal Court for its London run.

At the Harold Pinter theatre, London, until 20 June.