A play that was never performed in Coward’s lifetime, Volcano tells the story of a widow living in a house on the side of a volcano, who is seduced by a married man. As his wife flies in to see off her competition, tensions – and the volcano – begin to erupt.

Recently widowed Adela Shelly finds herself being seduced by the suave Guy Littleton, a visitor to her elegant Pacific 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 hasn’t contemplated that Adela’s best friend, Ellen, might also be falling for her husband… and as tensions bubble up from under the surface and begin to erupt, so does the volcano, all with explosive consequences…