- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (2 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 057122606X
- ISBN-13: 978-0571226061
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.1 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 129,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"His best political play yet . . . An exhilarating account of the genesis of the current war in Iraq."--John Lahr, "The New Yorker"
"The most significant theatrical artifact yet to grow from our catastrophic times."--Linda Winer, " Newsday"
"The most feverishly anticipated play in London in recent memory." --Ben Brantley, "The New York Times"
"The most significant theatrical artifact yet to grow from our catastrophic times."--Linda Winer, " Newsday"
"The most feverishly anticipated play in London in recent memory." --Ben Brantley, "The New York Times"
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'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.'
The famous response of Donald Rumsfeld, American Secretary of Defense, to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference on 11 April 2003, provides the title for a new play, specially written for the Olivier Theatre, about the extraordinary process leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
How does the world settle its differences, now there is only one superpower? What happens to leaders risking their credibility with sceptical publics? From events which have dominated international headlines for the last two years David Hare has fashioned both a historical narrative and a human drama about the frustrations of power and the limits of diplomacy.
'Our greatest living political playwright.' New Statesman
'When future historians come to study the state of Britain in the late twentieth century, Hare will be the playwright they turn to first.' Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday
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Stuff Happens is the text of a play that was performed at the National Theatre and relates to the conduct of the Iraq war and the dreadful motivation of the key political players in the UK and the USA. The topic is well worth exploring and the untrustworthy nature of politicians worth exposing. Unfortunately a play with some fifty speaking parts and a text made up of not especially well thought out cut and paste material does not justify the support of the National Theatre, however commendable the anti-establishment content presented by an establishment institution. Stuff Happens is simply not theatrical and a disappointing piece by the playwright. Had this play been presented by a new playwright it would have rapidly been dispatched to the dustbin, and rightly so.
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This play has been created from letters and reports written and told by the governments themselves.
For anyone interested in modern politics, its worth the read!
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Very good quality and condition, also delivery came the next day. Was very please with my purchase
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