Peggy Ashcroft Days", Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" and Pinter's "Family Voices". Her RSC roles were Lidya in Aleksei Arbuzov's "Old World" (1976), and her final stage part was the Countess in "All's Well That Ends Well", which she played at Stratford in 1981 and in London in 1982. In the years after her last stage appearance Ashcroft made occasional, but highly successful, television and film appearances. For "The Jewel in the Crown" she won a BAFTA award for best actress in 1984, and for her portrayal of Mrs Moore in David Lean's 1985 film "A Passage to India" she won
The Bread-Winner (play) are a similar age to their Battle counterparts, fill the scenes in the Battles’ house at Golders Green in London. The play was in written in 1930 and first produced by Athole Stewart at the Vaudeville Theatre London on September 30 of the same year. Ronald Squire and Peggy Ashcroft played Charles and Judy Battle. The title format for the Vaudeville playbill, as reproduced in Who's Who in the Theatre, (Seventh edition, 1933) is "The Breadwinner". According to theatre archivist Robert Tanitch ("Peggy Ashcroft", Hutchinson, 1987, ), one of Peggy Ashcroft's lines, "Don't you know that since the war the