Nicked

Synopsis

"They gave me their vote. They gave me their trust. And the country can’t decide. So I must." May 2010. Two forty-somethings have lost the general election. The British public has not voted them into power. Not even close. Even after thirteen years. Even following a huge financial crisis. Even against Gordon Brown. The British public has not voted them into power. So they take it. Nicked. Politics you can dance to.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 30 April 2011

Political satire is like a glass of freshly-squeezed lime juice; it needs just the right quantity of honey to make it palatable as well as healthful, and to inhibit instant regurgitation. Not an easy thing to pull off successfully, but Richard Marsh and Natalia Sheppard's Nicked manages to do just that.

Just a year ago, Britain faced a political if not a constitutional crisis. There was one man determined to stay on in Downing Street, another who wanted to be there instead, and a third who suddenly discovered that he held the balance of power. Or did/does he? A cast of eight makes all this plain – as plain, at any rate, as British politics ever can be. Or ever were, for that matter.

You can guess who our (dramatically flawed) hero might be. We meet a whole raft of political wheeler-dealers as well. Jason Langley is the fleet-footed -– but not, perhaps, equally fleet-witted Nick – flurried by a vast amount of completely contradictory advic...

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