Real-life mother and son Lia Williams and Joshua James play on-stage mother and son as The Vortex by Noël Coward opens the 2023 Chichester Festival Theatre summer season.
Running from Friday, April 28-Saturday, May 20, the piece is set in the roaring 20s in a world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home from Paris with an unexpected fiancée and a secret, it sets off a chain of events which threatens to pull them all into a maelstrom.