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 usually more turned towards the light.
Cast
- Margaret Leighton as Florence Lancaster
- Alan Melville as Pawnie
- Patrick Barr as David Lancaster
- Jennifer Daniel as Helen Saville
- Richard Warwick as Nicky Lancaster
- Felicity Gibson as Bunty Mainwaring
- Barry Justice as Tom Veryan
- Nancie Jackson as Clara Hibbert
- David McKail as Bruce Fairlight
- Patricia Mort as Preston