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In Stuff Happens by Sir David Hare - a drama-documentary about the build-up to the war in Iraq - actors play Tony Blair, George Bush and other frontline politicians.
MICHAEL GOVE:
There is something intrinsically dishonest about this piece because what
it seeks to do is to use words, speeches, that we all know are verifiable,
the words as spoken by the real politicians, and then it interpellates
conjecture in such a way as to make a particular, to my mind, transparently
ideological point. It is clear that David Hare is one of our finest
playwrights, it's clear that he can construct a pacey reconstruction
of events, but it's also clear to me that what he sought to do at key
moments is to interpellate his interpretation of events where there
is no clear consensus about what may or may not have happened.