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Stuff Happens

Stuff Happens is a play by David Hare, written in response to the Iraq War. Hare describes it as "a history play" that deals with recent history.

The title is inspired by Donald Rumsfeld's response to widespread looting in Baghdad:

"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.” (April 11, 2003)


The play presents a mix of viewpoints, including arguments for and against the attack on Iraq, mixing verbatim re-creations of real speeches, meetings and press conferences and fictionalised versions of private meetings between members of the Bush and Blair administrations, and international figures such as Hans Blix and Dominique de Villepin.

An ensemble cast plays over 40 roles during the 3 hour play, although the actors playing the principals -- Bush, Rice, Powell and Blair -- play only one role.

Stuff Happens opened at the National Theatre in London in September 2004, and has subsequently been performed at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum (with Keith Carradine and Julian Sands) in June 2005 and at Sydney's Seymour Center in July 2005. In March 2006, it opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in New York City. Its New England premiere was held by Zeitgeist Stage Company in a show that was extended due to popular demand and won a Helen Hayes Award for Oustanding Production by a Fringe Company [1]. The play will again show in the Summer of 2007 at the ACT theater in Seattle, and again in November at Western Washington University as the opening show of the 2007-2008 academic main stage season of the WWU Theatre Arts Department. This latter production will be directed by Professor Mark Kuntz, the national chair of the Kenedy Center American Collegiate Theater Festival.

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For other persons of the same name, see David Hare.
Sir David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English dramatist and director.

Hare was born in Sussex and was educated at Lancing College and at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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