The Vortex, Chichester Festival Theatre, review - naturalism clogs up Coward's pipes
★★THE VORTEX, CHICHESTER Coward's drama about damaged mother and son needs Dyno-rodding Noel Coward's play about damaged mother and son needs Dyno-rodding 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…