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Don't Look Now

Attempting to move on from their grief over the death of their daughter, John & Laura holiday in Venice; there they encounter strange & violent events.
Dramatised by Katie Hims

John ..... Jamie Parker
Laura ..... Aisling Loftus
Christine ..... Mabel Cresswell
Jonny ..... Bertie Cresswell
Dorcas .... Rebecca Crankshaw
Hilda ..... Jessica Turner
Manager ..... Alessandro Dowling
Detective ..... Ian Dunnett Junior
Brit ..... John Lightbody

Pianist ..... Ian Dunnett Junior
Writer .... Daphne Du Maurier
Dramatist ..... Katie Hims
Director ..... Sally Avens

Du Maurier's brilliantly subtle and disturbing exploration of loss.
John and Laura take a holiday in Venice in an attempt to move on from the grief that has gripped them since the death of their daughter.
There they meet two sisters, one of whom claims to have had a vision of their dead daughter. A claim that begins to eat away at the couple's grief and painfully exposes their different methods of dealing with their loss. As John becomes more adamant that the sisters are charlatans he finds hlmself caught up in a deadly hunt around the dank and dark alleyways of Venice.

Don’t Look Now is part of a collection of dramas in Daphne du Maurier: Double Exposure, a celebration of the imaginative variety and power of one of our most underestimated but prolific and radical female writers. It is the first of three dramatisations of short stories which are taboo-busting excursions into the dark unvisited realms of the inner life . You can also hear The Blue Lenses and The Little Photographer.
Beside Myself, a biographical Afternoon Drama about Daphne, starring Helena Bonham Carter, accompanies the three dramatisations.

57 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Mar 2024 15:00

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  • Sun 3 Mar 2024 15:00

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