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The National Theatre re-asserts its place not just at the heart of our theatrical life but also at the heart of our national (and international) political life, making headlines of its own with a play plucked from events that have dominated the international headlines for the past two years.
Premiered on the eve of the third anniversary of September 11th, which set this train of events in motion, David Hare's Stuff Happens takes its title from American Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld's response to the looting of Baghdad after it had been invaded: “Stuff happens…. And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”