The Vortex

Noël Coward

earliest edition we have, 2003 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013

'The Vortex' shot Coward to fame in 1924 as both a playwright and a performer, its depiction of sex and drugs in the Jazz Age stunning the critics and causing a sensation. Florence Lancaster is an ageing social beauty and a serial adulteress, who openly takes beautiful young lovers half her age. Her son Nicky returns from Paris with both his fiancée Bunty, and a serious drug addiction. As both mother and son show inc...

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Vortex edition · 2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350421936
Vortex edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472503480
Vortex edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472503497
The Vortex (Methuen Modern Plays) edition · 2003 · A&C Black · 96 pages · 9780413773098

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