Sutton Arts Theatre - The Vortex by Noël Coward (Act I)

Enter The Vortex...
“The best thing I've seen on this stage.”
“Magic to watch”
“A triumph!”
“★★★★”

Young composer Nicky Lancaster returns home from a year away in Paris, with both a cocaine addiction and a fiancé, Bunty, in tow. Only to discover his own mother, Florence, has cuckholded his father with the very man Bunty was previously engaged to. The fraught relationship between socialite mother and misguided son is the centre piece for this production, which above all else focuses on sexual vanity and emotional dependency.

The Vortex explores the darker side of the "Bright Young Things" of the Roaring 1920s. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and immoral relationships are observed in this early, once scandalous work from the playwright-actor, which made Coward a star.

➣Written by: Noël Coward
➣Directed by: Stuart Goodwin

Recorded on the final night of the run (4.2.17)