Kean, Siddons, Evans, Ashcroft, Gielgud, McKellen and Dench are all names to conjure. But there are plenty of rising thespians with the talent to join the list of the British stage's previous and current acting greats"We shall not see his like again " it is the end of an era," declared Dame Maggie Smith on the death of Sir John Gielgud in 2000. JB Priestley described Peggy Ashcroft as the greatest actress of the Engl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM on November 27, 2012