In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the cocktail party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was usually more turned towards the light.
The video shows Alan Greenwood, a marketing manager, conducting the first of a series of selection interviews to fill a marketing assistant vacancy. He is unaccustomed to conducting interviews and makes many mistakes, until the first candidate, an experienced interviewee, teaches him how to conduct...
