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One is barely a third of the way into Stuff Happens, the new David Hare play about George W. Bush, Tony Blair and the buildup to war in Iraq, before the audience is jolted into an awareness that what they're watching constitutes that rare piece of contemporary theater that has very real - some might say shockingly real - value as news. Prime Minister Blair, in the determinedly sweaty presence of actor Nicholas Farrell, is calling on the carpet his American counterpart, played here by classically trained Brit actor Alex Jennings, who's about the last person in the world one might have thought of as a natural stage Dubya (and turns out to be a revelation in the part).
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