The Weirdstone and House of Silk
Nov. 19th, 2011 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylMixed feelings about today's dramatisation of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen on R4. On the one hand the performances were good and the idea of having the story narrated by an older Colin worked well, but on the other so much of the plot was lost in the fight to cram the action into an hour — including, shockingly, the decent into the Svart Alfar warren and the brilliantly claustrophobic escape — that it makes you wonder why the didn't wait for a 90 minute slot when they might have been able to do justice to the story.
My reactions to Derek Jacobi's reading of Anthony Horowitz' The House of Silk are rather more straightforward. The reading was every bit as good as expected and the story, although sailing close to cliche in places (something Conan Doyle hardly went out of his way to avoid), works well as a slightly updated and suitably grim Holmes mystery.
My reactions to Derek Jacobi's reading of Anthony Horowitz' The House of Silk are rather more straightforward. The reading was every bit as good as expected and the story, although sailing close to cliche in places (something Conan Doyle hardly went out of his way to avoid), works well as a slightly updated and suitably grim Holmes mystery.
