Rocket To The Moon is set in a dental office, the work place of Ben Stark. When stunning, stockingless, ruthless Cleo Singer arrives, she 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. In those stifling, shared offices there are rivals for Cleo, a woman discovering life, a woman who is hungry for expression and for love. And she is no pushover, she’s looking for the real deal.

Odets, who wrote Rocket To The Moon in 1938, is also the author of Awake And Sing!, which played at the Almeida theatre in 2007, and The Country Girl, which played at the Apollo theatre in 2010.

Keeley Hawes, who leads the cast of Rocket To The Moon, is best known for her work in television series including Upstairs Downstairs, Ashes To Ashes, Tipping The Velvet and Spooks. She makes her National Theatre debut in this production.

Rocket To The Moon is directed by Angus Jackson, whose previous work at the National Theatre includes The Power Of Yes and Elmina’s Kitchen.

For more about Rocket To The Moon at the National Theatre read the First Night Feature.