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This staging of the play that made Coward famous is a rich tapestry that wonderfully veers between camp cattiness and heartfelt melodrama

Sometimes I go outside and look at our kitchen drain. Where there should be a vortex there’s a largely static pool. Tree roots have recently grown through the old pipes, their clumps colonised with fat, dog hair and coleslaw bits, and though a bit of handpumping will shift some of the stale water for a while, it really needs systemic attention from Dyno-rod. A good Dyno-rodding is what Chichester’s new production of Noel Coward’s The Vortex needs too.

Daniel Raggett's production of Accidental Death of An Anarchist will transfer to the West End, following a critically acclaimed, sell out season at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

The hit production moves into central London

Tom Basden’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist heads to the West End - Starring Daniel Rigby and Tony Gardner

The Vortex by Noël Coward, Chichester Festival Theatre, until Saturday, May 20.

Noël Coward’s The Vortex (April 28-May 20) opens the 2023 Chichester Festival Theatre summer season – a production which marks the 50th anniversary of Coward’s death.

Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

PATRICK MARMION: Julius Caesar at the RSC is a curious offering, throwing as it does a cast of rookies and debutantes to the lions in another solemnly PC vision of the Bard.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist: Tackling some uncomfortable truths head-on, this production is ruthless, relevant and riotous.