‘We swirl about in a vortex of beastliness.’ The Vortex was first shown at the Everyman theatre, Hampstead, London on 25th November 1924. Noel Coward directed the play and played the role of Nicky Lancaster, a pianist. Coward was 23 when he wrote the play and set it in the ‘roaring twenties’. A hundred years on, a new performing version of the play has been written and directed by Daniel Raggett at Chichester Festival Theatre where it was first performed on 28 April 2023. This version draws on Coward's original drafts. It makes for excellent parallels between the society of the 1920s and that of the current 2020s.
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