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Do we need another play/movie/documentary/book about George W. Bush and his merry men (and woman? Don't we already know enough? Aren't our positions clear? Or is there something more for us to learn? Well, playwright David Hare thinks there is and director Nicholas Hytner agrees with him and so Stuff Happens happens on the stage of the National Theatre.
"Stuff happens" was Secretary Rumsfeld's press conference response to a question about the looting of Baghdad's priceless archaeological heritage. One suspects Rumsfeld's slack-jawed hillbilly hokum was the inspiration for Hare, whose work often deals with the way modern politics distorts values, individuals, and institutions.