Peggy Ashcroft

Part two, introduced by some comment on the nature of the relationship between writer and publisher, provides sketches and stories of many of the authors whom DA worked with. Though she does not belabour the...

Following its success on Broadway, EB 's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket , directed by John Gielgud and starring Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans .

The play was a success with London audiences and critics. In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan claimed that the West End Theatre justified its existence with this production of the finest artificial comedy to have...

Notable among RPJ 's television scripts was the four-part London Weekend Television series adapted from Paul Scott 's The Raj Quartet in 1978; it was shown both on the wide screen and on tv, entitled...

Molly's close friends included novelist Elizabeth Bowen and actress Peggy Ashcroft . Visiting the Perry family home at Woodrooff, she met John Perry , who later collaborated with her on plays, and Bobby Keane ...

Her children were grown up and she was, she says, doing nothing. She began writing in the same secrecy as at the beginning of her career, still finding the process painful.Billy Collins ,...

On 30 October 1958 ML was one of the signatories to a letter to the editor of theTimes urging the government to cease testing nuclear weapons; others who signed included Peggy Ashcroft , Storm Jameson

Nigel Playfair directed GP 's play When Adam Delved, at the little Q Theatre on Kew Bridge, London, with the nineteen-year-old Peggy Ashcroft . The play remains unpublished.

Simon Gray was Pinter's favourite living playwright and favourite friend. Other friends included Sam Spiegel (who offered him a place to stay when he left his first marriage) and Reggie Smith (husband of the...

Writing a second novel, she said, was inevitable after the first, and after that she was hooked. She drew for it on her brother Harold's stories of his music teacher in London. The...

John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft performed in Twelfth Night in the Barn Theatre; it was on this night that CSJ first met her new neighbours Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson .