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So many members of the Special Pundit Service (SPS) have infiltrated previews to David Hare's new play that the theatre critic reporting for duty on press night feels like some hapless war correspondent arriving to cover a battle only to find that it is already over.
Strangely, however, the experts seemed unable to agree whether Hare has scored a famous victory, or suffered a disastrous defeat in his documentary drama about the build-up to the war in Iraq. Some found it a crashing bore, others cheered it to the rafters, and quite a few were somewhere in between.
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