With the next election fast approaching, what better time for a dramatised account of the horse-trading that gave us the present Government? Coalition (tonight, 28 March), by the young playwright James Graham, author of the National Theatre hit This House, marshals a large cast to give a powerful sense of what went on in the fraught few days between the 2010 election and the creation of the Conservative-Lib Dem Government. Was it really like this? A frenetic opening, crunched together out of news footage, recalls the Liberal Democrats’ rapid rise and fall: Nick Clegg was briefly more popular than Churchill, yet his party lost seats in the election. Nonetheless, his moment had come. With neither Tories nor Labour able to form a government without him, he was able to sell his parliame