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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hip-hop-clegg-musical-to-be-staged.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The 'rise and fall' of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will be portrayed in a hip hop musical later this year" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-hip-hop-clegg-musical-to-be-staged.jpg" alt="The 'rise and fall' of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will be portrayed in a hip hop musical later this year"/></a></p>
<p>A hip hop musical based on Nick Clegg&#8217;s role in the formation of the coalition Government will be performed later this year.</p>
<p>The show, which has the working title Nicked, features David Cameron in a &#8220;rap off&#8221; with his backbenchers and promises to take in the student demonstrations and the run-up to the referendum on voting reform.</p>
<p>Steven Atkinson, the artistic director of the HighTide Festival in Suffolk, where the show will be performed, said it will follow &#8220;the rise and fall of Nick Clegg&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;The genesis of it comes from a writer called Richard Marsh. He is a left-wing performance poet and has teamed up with DJ Natalia Sheppard who has given it an urban score.</p>
<p>&#8220;The narrative is that in the first half we have the formation of the coalition and Clegg&#8217;s struggle to decide which way to go. They are all in there &#8211; Cameron, Clegg, Brown and the Milibands.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a brilliant scene when Cameron has to go to the Conservative Party to convince them the coalition is the way to go and they have a rap off and of course it&#8217;s all these posh white men rapping like street kids.&#8221;</p>
<p>The show starts on April 30, before the May 5 referendum, but Atkinson said it would be as up to date as possible.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;Whatever happens in May, Clegg seems to have lost whatever momentum he once had.&#8221;</p>
<p>The cast has still to be decided but Atkinson said he was hopeful it would go to the West End if it proved to be a success.</p>
<p>He added the writers had spoken to people close to the politicians involved but said he did not know if Mr Clegg was aware of it.</p>
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