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Two unnerving dramas mining the dark side of human nature by Daphne du Maurier.

1. An eye operation changes how Marda West sees the world and the people in it.

Marda ….. Bethany Muir
Jim ….. Oliver Chris
Nurse Ansel ….. Rhiannon Neads
The Surgeon ….. Michael Bertenshaw
Nurse Brand ….. Anna Spearpoint
Eric ….. Ian Dunnett Junior

Writer ..... Daphne du Maurier
Dramatist ..... Anna Linstrum
Director .... Gemma Jenkins

Starring Bethany Muir (The Killing Kind, Dark Harbour, Dickensian) and Oliver Chris (Rivals, Trying, A Very British Scandal).

2. The beautiful but bored Madame la Marquise is on holiday in the South of France. One day she meets the local photographer. As Monsieur Paul studies her she feels the thrill of being looked at and wants something momentous to happen.

Madame la Marquise ..... Lucy Boynton
Monsieur Paul ..... Ian Dunnett Junior
Edouard ..... John Lightbody
Miss Clay ..... Jessica Turner
Celeste ..... Rosie Coleman
Helene ..... Maisie Avis
Mademoiselle Paul ..... Rhiannon Neads

Writer ..... Daphne du Maurier
Dramatist ..... Vivienne Allen
Director ..... Tracey Neale

Starring Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Ipcress File, Why Didn't They Ask Evans and will be appearing as Ruth Ellis in an upcoming four part TV drama).

The Blue Lenses and The Little Photographer are part of a collection of dramas in Daphne du Maurier: Double Exposure, a celebration of the imaginative variety and power of one of the underestimated but prolific and radical female writers. These two short stories follow on from Don’t Look Now and they have all been selected for their extraordinary taboo-busting excursions into dark unvisited realms of inner life. Beside Myself, a biographical Afternoon Drama about Daphne, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy, accompanies the three dramatisations.

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