Seven Ages

This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tender, and telling story of life’s seven ages, from childhood to old age. Based on Lord Owen’s published anthology Seven Ages—Poetry for a Lifetime, it features many of Britain’s leading actors. Shakespeare’s “seven ages” speech, read by Sir Ian McKellen, punctuates the program which contains more than one hundred poems read by forty actors. Highlights include Michael Caine reading Kipling’s “If,” Ralph Fiennes reading Hood’s “I Remember, I Remember,” John Cleese reading “The Owl and the Pussycat,” and Pete Postlethwaite reading “Kubla Khan.”