Mirren in stage return

Helen Mirren is set to return to the stage for the first time in six years.

The Oscar winner will star in a three-month run of Jean Racine's 17th Century drama ‘Phhdre’ at London's National Theatre.

The actress has been in talks with the theatre's director Nicholas Hytner for months, after expressing an interest in starring in a theatre production.

Mirren will play the wife of Theseus, King of Athens, in the Greek tragedy.