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There is an abiding question that hangs over David Hare's Stuff Happens,
and it goes well beyond wondering whether a mostly English cast will
be able to bring to life George W. Bush and his cabinet on the stage
of Britain's National Theatre. More than that is the concern about whether
Hare, the prolific dramatist who has also long been one of England's
more outspoken leftists, has written art or agitprop.
The answer, to this spectator, is that Stuff Happens, for all its heroic
engagement with the world at large, isn't quite art and isn't knee-jerk
agitprop.