Visiting Mr Green - Trafalgar Studio 1
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
FOLLOWING a highly successful national tour, Visiting Mr Green with Warren Mitchell in the title role, will transfer to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios for a limited season – from April 8 (previews from April 3) to May 10, 2008.
In Jeff Baron’s award-winning two-hander, widower Mr Green is almost hit by a speeding car driven by corporate executive Ross Gardiner (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 Mitchell’s long career has spanned stage, film and television, and although he’ll always be remembered as Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom ‘Till Death Us Do Part which ran from 1966 until 1975, his stage career began over 75 years ago.
His more recent theatre credits include Death of A Salesman (National Theatre); Art, The Caretaker and The Homecoming (all in the West End); and, most recently, Arthur Miller’s The Price (Tricycle Theatre and West End) for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor.
Turner’s theatre credits include Hamlet (as Laertes) and Romeo and Juliet (as Mercutio), both for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and most recently, English Touring Theatre’s production of The Changeling. On television, he has appeared in Hotel Babylon, Cromwell, Bad Girls and Dalziel and Pascoe.
In Visiting Mr Green, Mitchell and Turner will be directed by former Chichester Festival Theatre Director Patrick Garland. Produced by Ian Fricker, the production is designed by Sean Cavanagh, with lighting by Ben Cracknell and sound by Peter Cox.
Visiting Mr. Green received its world premiere in 1996 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. A year later, it opened in New York’s Union Square Theatre where it ran for 12 months starring Eli Wallach as Mr Green. In the past 10 years, the play has been seen in 37 countries and has been performed in 22 languages in over 300 productions.
Tickets: £20, £30, £42.50 plus concessions.
Times: Monday to Saturday at 7:30pm, Thursdays and Saturday matinees at 2:30pm.
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