The Vortex

Vortex, The

    Author: Noël Coward

    First Performance: 1924, London

    Published: 1925

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts

    Setting: London and a country house, 1920s

    Cast: 6m, 4f

Florence Lancaster is a rich socialite, who spends her time with meretricious acquaintances and, tolerated by her amiable husband David, with her lover Tom Veryan, an athletic young man. She struggles to pretend to herself that she is still young and adored by everyone. Her effete, drug-addicted son Nicky returns from Paris with his fiancée Bunty Mainwaring, who turns out to be the former mistress of Tom. At a party at the Lancasters' country home, Bunty and Tom fall in love again, and she breaks off her engagement with Nicky. When Florence discovers Bunty and Tom kissing, she throws a scene and makes a fool of herself. Nicky is forced to re-examine...

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