Acclaimed actor Warren Mitchell will return to Bath as Jeff Baron's multi-award winning play Visiting Mr Green tours to the Theatre Royal for the first time appearing from Monday, January 28 to Saturday, February 2.

Widower Mr Green (played by Warren Mitchell) is almost hit by a speeding car driven by corporate executive Ross Gardiner (played by Gideon Turner). Found guilty of reckless driving, Ross is ordered to spend the next six months making weekly visits to Mr Green.

What starts off as a beautifully crafted comedy about two people who resent being in the same room together develops into a gripping and poignant drama. Family secrets are revealed and old wounds reopened as both men come to understand and tolerate one another's differences.

Eighty-two-year-old Warren Mitchell was last seen on stage in Arthur Miller's The Price, for which he won a prestigious Olivier Award, and which played the Theatre Royal Bath as part of a UK tour and at the National Theatre in 2004. Best known as Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part, Warren started his stage career a staggering 75 years ago, although he was learning even before that as he explains: "Aged four, I told a dirty joke to my family - my father laughed, clipped me round the ear and sent me to bed. I learned then that showbiz is quite tricky and audiences fickle."

In 1944, studying at Oxford University, he met Richard Burton and they joined the RAF together. "His account of the profession convinced me that the theatre might be more in my line than nuclear physics back at Oxford - and so it turned out."

Visiting Mr. Green also stars Gideon Turner whose theatre credits include Laertes in Hamlet and Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet, both for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Gideon's television credits include Hotel Babylon, Cromwell, Bad Girls and Dalziel and Pascoe.