Hayley’s keeping her Powder dry

HAYLEY ATWELL, who’s dominating prime-time Sunday night TV with her superb performance as Margaret Schlegel in writer Kenneth Lonergan and director Hettie Macdonald’s adaptation of E.M. Forster’s Howards End, will return to the stage in the British premiere of Dry Powder by U.S. playwright Sarah Burgess. It will be directed by Anna Ledwich at Hampstead Theatre from January 26. Atwell’s Miss Schlegel is all about helping the poor and unfortunate in society. But Jenny, the ruthless financier she’ll play in the contemporary-set Dry Powder, would rather walk all over such people.