Overview

In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was more usually turned towards towards the light. Available in the UK in a single-play edition and in the volume Noel Coward Collected Plays: One, along with Hay Fever, Easy Virtue and Fallen Angels.