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Bringing the Travelex season to a close with one of the National's most eagerly awaited productions this year, David Hare's Stuff Happens is an undoubted success. Not because it is a brilliant play as such, indeed with the actors stepping into the spotlight to bring to life the key statements on the build-up to the war in Iraq, some might not call it a true play at all.
But it undoubtedly is, because it is an interpretative work about a subject which continues to cause speculation. Imagination may play a relatively small part in it because it is almost completely based on published evidence but the cast bring to life real people, some reputations being damaged almost beyond repair, others receiving a respect which may come as something of a surprise.
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