A single-volume edition of Noel Coward's famous play, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002.

In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of those Bright Young Things, c 1923. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and immoral relationships are observed in this early, once scandalous work from the playwright-actor, which made Coward a star. "Here is a piece which is the dernier cri in the theatrical mode, un peu shocking perhaps, but no less popular on that account," twittered James Agate in the Sunday Times.