Daily Telegraph
9 September 2004
HARE'S WAR SATIRE: BOMBSHELL OR BORE?
by Hugh Davies

 

Political drama is back on the London stage with a vengeance as audiences pack the 1,200-seat Olivier Theatre every night this week for Sir David Hare's version of the build-up to the war in Iraq.

However, the viewers are divided on its intellectual impact.
Stuff Happens, a title lifted from Donald Rumsfeld's response to the looting in Baghdad, is Sir David's follow-up to Via Dolorosa, his experience of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and The Permanent Way, about the privatisation of the railways.

 

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