Rocket to the Moon

Archive Listings for Rocket to the Moon

T1296102885 (NT11)

Producer National Theatre. Director Angus Jackson. Design Anthony Ward. Lighting Mark Henderson. Sound John Leonard. Performer Jessica Raine (Cleo Singer). Performer Nicholas Woodeson (Mr Prince). Performer Sebastian Armesto (Frenchy). Performer Lisa Caruccio Came (Ensemble). Performer Dan Crow (Ensemble). Performer Morgan Deare (Ensemble). Performer Keeley Hawes (Belle Stark). Performer Rendah Heywood (Ensemble). Performer Joseph Millson (Joseph Millson). Performer Leighton Pugh (Ensemble). Performer Tim Steed (Willy Wax). Performer Peter Sullivan (Phil Cooper).

23 Mar 11 to 21 Jun 11

Lyttelton (National Theatre), West End :: V374
listing details L1508586143

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Play :: 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!

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