Rose, KingstonNoël Coward didn't just have a talent to amuse: he had a talent to shock. This 1924 play was the Look Back in Anger of its day, a drama that dismayed the upper classes who saw themselves portrayed in all their "vortex of beastliness".At its heart is Florence Lancaster, a self-dramatising former beauty still stubbornly clinging to her youth, who has taken a lover the same age as her artistic son, Nick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM on February 15, 2013