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The National Theatre has a duty to question Tony Blair and George Bush on the real causes of the Iraq war, Nicholas Hytner, the theatre's new director, said last night.
Mr Hytner was speaking before the opening of Stuff Happens, Sir David Hare's controversial new play about the build-up to the war.
Politicians in America and Britain were so sparing with the truth that the theatre had to take up cudgels on behalf of a confused public, he said.
In their first interviews about the play, Sir David and Mr Hytner, insisted that Stuff Happens should be seen as "a work of art" not a piece of journalism, though it contained many truths.
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