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Shakespeare's Ages of Man
Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare's Ages of Man is a solo recital of some thirty speeches from the plays and about a dozen sonnets--which are read entire.
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I suspect that the production was invented as a vehicle for making money.
Moneymaking enterprises are not necessarily to be scorned, especially when they involve one of the two or three greatest Shakespearean actors of the day.
But I think Ages of Man would draw a mixed verdict whatever its origins. Any such jumble must inevitably be at once too much and too little.
The program is divided into three parts: youth, manhood, and old age. Thus Romeo's speeches, Polonius's advice, and some of the cautionary sonnets go in part one, and the final section includes the deaths of Romeo, Lear and Clarence, among others.
If the division was intended to give the program some sort of unity, the effort was half-hearted and doomed.
Readings by a single, gifted actor can be effective indeed, as others in the Gre
