Saturday Drama: If Only

David Edgar's tongue-in-cheek drama about the rise, and possible fall, of the Coalition.

The volcanic ash cloud of April 2010 strands a Labour spin doctor, a Tory MP and a Lib Dem party worker in Malaga airport. As they struggle to get back to the UK, they speculate about the outcome of the forthcoming election and a pact is formed. Four years later they meet again, on 4 August 2014, and the pact begins to unravel.

Originally produced for Chichester Festival in 2013, Edgar's provocative and witty play is a fiction rooted in fact and projects ahead to imagine the final consequences of the Coalition government, which in itself seemed unimaginable only four years ago.

David Edgar is long established as a political playwright whose credits include Destiny, Pentecost, Playing With Fire and The Shape Of The Table, as well as the multi-award-winning adaptation of The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The cast includes Hattie Morahan and Amaka Okafor.

Producer/ Alison Hindell for the BBC

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