Rocket to the Moon
by Clifford Odets
4 STARS ' Absorbing, humane and humorous.' Time Out
'Winningly humorous and poignant.' Independent on Sunday
'Keeley Hawes is outstanding... The cast are superb.' Daily Express
'Jessica Raine has a lovely mixture of sexiness, innocence and vulnerability.' Daily Telegraph
'Angus Jackson's fine National Theatre ensemble brings every one of the characters to persuasive life.' Time Out
Owing to a scheduling change, the final performance of Rocket to the Moon will now be Thursday 9 June at 7.30pm.
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 includes Keeley Hawes, returning to the stage after BBCs Upstairs Downstairs and Ashes to Ashes, and Joseph Millson, recently in Love Never Dies and the National Theatre's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
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Rocket to the Moon finished on: 9 June 2011
