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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
The Vortex (Donmar)
King Hedley II (Tricycle)
A Laughing Matter (Lyttelton)
She Stoops to Conquer (Lyttelton)
Anything Goes (Olivier)
Michael Grandage has chosen to mark his arrival at the Donmar with a surprisingly good production of The Vortex. I've never really thought of myself as a Coward fan, but after an almost superfluous first act The Vortex emerges as a real piece of drama. I'm not sure who deserves the credit for this: Michael Grandage or Noel Coward. Grandage has been widely criticised for casting a black actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, as Nicky Lancaster, the role Coward originally wrote for himself, and at first I found Ejiofor mildly irritating. But as the play unfolds, and Lancaster steps into the foreground, I began to warm...
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