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David Hare's Stuff Happens has already become a chewed-over public event.
But, after attending its Olivier press night, it also strikes me as a
very good, totally compelling play: one that may not contain a vast amount
of new information but that traces the origins of the Iraq war, puts
it in perspective and at the same time astutely analyses the American
body politic.
Political theatre comes in all shapes and sizes: satirical, fictional,
documentary and agitational. But Hare claims, with some justice, to be
writing a history: one that traces a dramatic sequence of events through
characters and issues.
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