Quote • PEGGY ASHCROFT • Much Ado About Nothing

The School for Scandal Greeting Card I don’t have an original image of Dame Peggy in Much Ado but you can buy this Play Pictorial cover of the actress with Frank Cellier in The School for Scandal. on greeting cards and postcards.

‘[Sir John] Gielgud revived his own colourful, ingeniously designed 1949 production a year later, casting himself as Benedick to Peggy Ashcroft’s Beatrice. On the first night the pair drank a bottle of champagne before going on – and according to Gielgud “never played so well in our lives”. London would see the show in 1952 and 1955.’ The Daily Telegraph

“Miss Ashcroft has no equal in this country for that rare combination of featherweight touch and attack; her high spirits are the most infectious in the world, and never for an instant do we sense their assumption by a skillful actress.” J.W. Lambert writing in the Sunday Times The 100 Greatest Shakespeare Performances