The Vortex is a Play in Three Acts by the English writer and actor No l Coward.
It has enjoyed several revivals and a film adaptation..
The Play premiered in November 1924 in London and played in Three theatres until June 1925, followed by a British tour and a New York production in 1925-26.
Despite, or because of, its controversial content for the time, the Play was Coward\'s first great commercial success.
The son\'s cocaine habit is seen by many critics as a metaphor for homosexuality, then taboo in Britain.
The Play depicts the sexual vanity of a rich, ageing beauty, her troubled relationship with her adult son, and drug abuse in British society circles after the First World War.
The Vortex is a Play in Three Acts by the English writer and actor No l Coward
