WEST END stalwart Jenny Seagrove will take to the Malvern stage this week in Noel Coward’s Volcano.


The play, which was never performed during Coward’s lifetime, gives a fascinating insight into the glamorous and scandalous Caribbean lifestyle he enjoyed.


Also starring Dawn Steele (Wild at Heart, Monarch of the Glen) and Jason Durr (Heartbeat), Volcano tells the story of recently widowed Adela Shelly who finds herself being seduced by the suave Guy Littleton, a visitor to her elegant Caribbean house on the side of an island volcano.


When Guy’s acid-tongued wife Melissa decides to fly in to see off the competition, she has not considered that Adela’s best friend, Ellen, might also be falling for her husband’s charms.


As tensions bubble up from under the surface and begin to erupt, so does the volcano, all with explosive consequences.


Seagrove has played leading roles in almost every West End play house and is known to millions of television viewers alongside Martin Shaw as barrister Jo Mills in the BBC series Judge John Deed.


Volcano is at Malvern Theatres between Monday and Saturday, August 6 and 11.


Tickets, from £17.50, are available from the box office on 01684 892 277 or online at malvern-theatres.co.uk.