Lord Clegg Awakes

Lord Clegg awakes in an enormous palace. He has had a most unusual dream. He falls back to sleep and finds himself in Sheffield Hallam, 2005. He has just been elected MP.

From here, we take a zigzag, whistlestop tour through the rise and fall of Nick Clegg, inventor of the Liberal Democrat party and the ultimate Radical Centrist. In his sudden rise to power he must choose between ideological purity and political compromise as the nefarious George Osborne seeks to lure him into a foul coalition.

This musical comedy weaves a collage of political absurdity from the now-nostaglic Coalition era, remembering Nick Clegg not as a minor politician, but as the centrifugal point around which British politics tried, and failed, to be different.