According to the Stage Keira Knightley is set to return to tread the boards in London’s West End next year in Lillian Hellman’s ‘The Children’s Hour’.

Keira will be playing alongside Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men), this production will be Moss’ West End debut. The two stars will play teachers who run a girls’ boarding school in America in the early Thirties and are accused by a malicious child of conducting an affair with one another. It’s a lie that’s to have grave repercussions as fur flies and legal action ensues.

The Children’s Hour will be directed by Ian Rickson, who directed Jerusalem at the Royal Court and in the West End and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott Landis.

Full casting and production information are to be announced.