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Stuff Happens is the latest offering from David Hare, whose last play, The Permanent Way, successfully exposed the privatisation of the railways. "Stuff happens" was the famous comment by Donald Rumsfeld following the looting of Baghdad.
The play is largely a historical narrative of the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq, interspersed with commentary and observation from various viewpoints.
It starts by taking us right back to the Vietnam war and, introducing each of the senior figures in the US Republican administration, exposes the various ways in which many of them avoided participation in the conflict.