Lee Evans is to come out of retirement to perform onstage again.

This time, however, he will not be doing stand-up but appearing in a play written by Harold Pinter as part of a Pinter season at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London to mark the tenth anniversary of the playwright's death.

Evans will perform a short play entitled Monologue originally written for television and will also act in a some Pinter sketches from October 25 - December 5. Evans will be appearing with Keith Allen, Tamsin Greig, Meera Syal, Tom Edden and – at select performances – Penelope Wilton.

Meera Syal will be appearing with him and the season also features Keith Allen, Jessica Barden, Ron Cook, Phil Davis, Danny Dyer, Paapa Essiedu, Lee Evans, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Tamsin Greig, Jane Horrocks, Celia Imrie, Gary Kemp, John Macmillan, Emma Naomi, Kate O’Flynn, Jonjo O'Neill, Tracy Ann Oberman, Abraham Popoola, Mark Rylance, Sir Antony Sher, John Simm, Hayley Squires, Maggie Steed, David Suchet, Russell Tovey, Penelope Wilton and Nicholas Woodeson.

Evans appeared in Pinter's The Dumb Waiter in London in 2007, but has rarely perfomed in public since announcing he was retiring on Jonathan Ross's TV show in 2014, though he also appeared in a one-off fundraiser of Shakespeare performances in aid of the UN Refugee Agency last year.

His last stand-up tour was his 2014 Monsters arena tour (pictured). 

Buy tickets for the Pinter season here.

Lee Evans is on the Graham Norton Show on BBC One, Friday, November 2.