Orange Tree, LondonDespite some fine performances, the first instalment of Geoffrey Beevers's tripartite Eliot adaptation lacks pace and tensionGeoffrey Beevers has previously adapted George Eliot's Adam Bede and Silas Marner, but Middlemarch is a hefty challenge. Not least because " as Beevers points out in the programme " it is "a much more subtle drama of developing human lives".Beevers's solution is to take three…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM on October 28, 2013