Update from Keeley’s page on Troika Talent:
Keeley goes into rehearsals for Ben Stark’s (sic) Rocket to the Moon at the National Theatre which opens on March 23rd.
Joseph Millson tweeted“
Saw matinee of country girl. Great. Martin shaw is such an underated actor. And Clifford Odets was showing us that dark underbelly before john Osborne sniffed his kitchen sink.
Keeley Hawes’ stage debut in Rocket to the Moon, a play written by Clifford Odets.
Stunning, stockingless, ruthless in her youth, Cleo Singer arrives in Ben Stark’s dental practice and turns his married, humdrum world upside down. She promises passion, escape, if only he knew how. But Stark is not alone in his frustrated dreams and in those stifling, shared offices there’s rivalry over a woman discovering life, a woman who’s hungry for expression and for love. And she’s no pushover, she’s looking for the real deal.
Why don’t you suddenly ride away, an airplane, a boat! Take a rocket to the moon! Explode!
Written in 1938 by Clifford Odets, the American master of dazzling, acerbic New York repartee, Rocket to the Moon puts opportunity in the way of a quietly desperate man and waits.
None of you can give me what I’m looking for: a whole full world, with all the trimmings!
The cast include Joseph Millson as Ben Stark, Keeley Hawes as Belle Stark, Jessica Raine as Cleo Singer and Nicolas Woodeson as Mr Prince.
(Source: nationaltheatre.org.uk)