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	Review: 'Stuff Happens' a robust drama - Boston.com
		David Hare's "Stuff Happens" is robust political theater -- on the surface, a fascinating, step-by-step account of how the United States and Britain built their case for the current war in Iraq.
		NEW YORK --David Hare's "Stuff Happens" is robust political theater -- on the surface, a fascinating, step-by-step account of how the United States and Britain built their case for the current war in Iraq.
		Yet the story of "Stuff Happens" has its beginnings in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, which was instrumental in forming the outlooks of Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/04/13/review_stuff_happens_a_robust_drama (698 words)

	Stuff Happens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stuff Happens is a play by David Hare, written in response to the Iraq War.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuff_Happens (260 words)

	First Unitarian Church of St. Louis \| Sermon
		Stuff shouldn't just happen in a world where people hate unfairness and expect, no, demand that the whole universe operate like a well-oiled machine with an obvious relationship between every cause and effect.
		Rather than accept the idea that maybe stuff just happens and go on living in a world in which there is uncertainty and unpredictability, there are those who'd rather believe that all events are the result of a kind of cosmic cause and effect.
		And when stuff happens, our task as a people of faith, is to try to figure out that meaning, that purpose, that lesson.
	www.firstuustlouis.org /sermons/stuff_happens_2005-04-24.html (2900 words)

	Theater in the Oval
		The overarching thrust of "Stuff Happens" is a portrait of an administration -- led by a Bush wilier than most of his critics give him credit for -- that swaggers into a war while seemingly incapable of contemplating the consequences.
		"Stuff Happens" casts Rice as the solid sentinel, coolly sticking by the president for better or worse, and Powell as a man of conscience, an anguished fence-straddler caught between duty and the intuition that Bush's path for the country spells calamity.
		For all the intrigue and backbiting in "Stuff Happens," the most intense struggle is the one between Powell and himself.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042800468_pf.html (1333 words)

	Stuff Happens - David Hare
		Stuff Happens was first performed at the National Theatre in London on 1 September 2004 in a production directed by Nicholas Hytner
		In an Author's Note David Hare writes that Stuff Happens "is surely a play, not a documentary", an almost necessary reminder given how many of the lines repeat words spoken by the actual, historical actors, words that ring very familiar.
		The main purpose of Stuff Happens is to trace that path to war.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/hared/stuff.htm (1674 words)

	Stuff Happens, a CurtainUp review
		Thus, the funny behind closed doors stuff conjured from Hare's imagined take of the interviews he conducted will be less revelation than relief from the sense of impotent anger this deadly serious "stuff" stirs up.
		Stuff Happens offers no plan for a more hopeful scenario but simply lays out the facts with as much dramatic heft as this combination docudrama/history format allows.
		This man, who happens to provide the play with its most emotionally resonant scene, sees his country's biggest sin as failing to take charge of itself and thus allowing the worst person [Saddam Hussein] to take charge of itself.
	www.curtainup.com /stuffhappensny.html (1504 words)

	Stuff Happens -- Review - Theater - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In placing "Stuff Happens" in the comparatively small Newman Theater at the Public, and putting the performers in a corridor of stage that runs between the two seating areas, the effect is as if the audience too is participating in this re-creation of recent events.
		I don't have to summarize the plot for you, do I? "Stuff Happens" charts the staff meetings (at the White House and at No. 10 Downing Street), closed-door conferences, public addresses, and backdoor diplomacy and betrayals that led to the American-spearheaded invasion of Iraq.
		And it feels appropriate to the newly ruminative tone of "Stuff Happens" that we are aware that what we are seeing is not necessarily exactly how it was.
	theater2.nytimes.com /2006/04/14/theater/reviews/14stuf.html (1541 words)

	Stuff of deadly dreams - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The title, Stuff Happens, is based on the real words of Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence, when asked to comment on the looting and pillage that followed the US conquest of Baghdad in April 2003.
		Armfield, who will begin rehearsals for Stuff Happens next week, sees the play as "a study of character, with the greater and terrifying resonance that you're watching a series of conversations and meetings, strategies and reactions of people that ends up in the world lurching into this current historical reality".
		Before Stuff Happens, he wrote The Permanent Way, a play concerned with ordinary people who died or were maimed in a random and horrible way in 1997, when an express train from Swansea to London's Paddington station sped through Southall station.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Arts/Stuff-of-deadly-dreams/2005/06/03/1117568360150.html (1525 words)

	Shit happens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fan points this out to Gump in an excited fashion to which he innocently replies, "It happens." In the film, this incident inspires that fan to create the "shit happens" slogan, shown in the form of a bumper sticker.
		T-shirts for teenagers are for sale which read "Shirt happens"; these are often banned from high schools for their similarity to the actual phrase.
		Sith happens was jocularly used in fan circles as a placeholder for the name of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith when the movie's name had not yet been revealed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shit_happens (674 words)

	No Force, No Fraud: Stuff happens, but why?
		We all know it does happen, usually at a most inconvenient, vulnerable time, and it seems to "bunch up" too...
		Of course, a lot of stuff happens because of our own actions, or inactions...
		The location of the Japanese fleet was first discovered by planes from Midway, and the initial attacks of land-based planes from Midway, although complete one-sided losses, were the beginning of placing the Japanese fleet in a defensive, reactive posture and they never managed to take the offensive again.
	libertyed.org /noforce/2006/03/stuff-happens-but-why.html (1302 words)

	Alert and Alarmed: Stuff Happens
		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 British play Stuff Happens opened in Sydney last night, thanks to Belvoir B's theatre company and Neil Armfield.
		Noted theatre critic, Gerard Henderson, who ripped into Hannie Rayson’s play Two Brothers, on a certain maritime incident, will be honing in on how the bleeding-hearts keep re-writing history to suit themselves.
	alertandalarmed.blogspot.com /2005/07/stuff-happens.html (570 words)

	Stuff Happens, The Seymour Centre - Review - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Stuff Happens cuts through the rhetoric of those plotting war on Iraq.
		Stuff Happens is more concerned with cause than effect, and, as signalled at the outset, "the real is what will really strike you as absurd".
		That proves to be the case as these powermongers squabble over semantics, project cool- and hot-headed authority, and remind themselves that politics, paradoxically, is not a popularity contest.
	www.smh.com.au /news/review/stuff-happens-the-seymour-centre/2005/07/21/1121539090060.html (714 words)

	DSCC : The 'Stuff Happens' Presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Stuff happens" was the way Don Rumsfeld described the destruction of Baghdad's hospitals, universities and museums while American soldiers stood around.
		Now stuff has happened in New Orleans, too, even as FEMA was turning away offers of assistance.
		And it's willing, apparently, to sacrifice any claim America may have to national greatness rather than inconvenience the rich by taxing them to build a more secure nation.
	www.dscc.org /news/latest/20050907_stuff (289 words)

	Stuff Happens \| Words Without Borders Forums & Blog
		Over dinner somewhere in Brooklyn, I think it must have been Passover (in other words, a while ago), I was an attentive listener to a discussion about Stuff Happens, the play by David Hare.
		Stuff Happens is, more than anything else, agitprop slightly disguised as a documentary play.
		I don’t think there were many hardcore Republicans in the audience, but at the same time, I don’t believe that anybody in the audience was willing to rise up against the government.
	forums.wordswithoutborders.org /?q=StuffHappens (537 words)

	Playbill News: Bush Administration Ready Iraq Attack in Stuff Happens as Hare Drama Reaches American Soil
		David Hare's Iraq war drama Stuff Happens opens its American premiere in Los Angeles June 5 with Keith Carradine playing President Bush and Julian Sands taking on Prime Minister Blair in a cast that also includes John Michael Higgins, Stephen Spinella, Dakin Matthews, Tyrees Allen, Lorraine Toussaint and John Vickery.
		Stuff Happens, which depicts nearly every major politico attached to the Bush White House, follows the prelude to the invasion of Iraq using actual quotes from the administration peppered with imagined dialogue.
		Tickets to Stuff Happens at the Taper, 135 North Grand Ave.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/93330.html (579 words)

	Stuff Happens
		When the things you say and do start coming over as hardhearted, mean and the opposite of compassionate, stuff happens.
		Stuff happens, and they brought it on themselves.
		Every minute of nothing happening we not only betray the ones who suffered: we let the future victims to line up.
	www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_edith_fl_050907_stuff_happens.htm (509 words)

	Stuff Happens, a CurtainUp London review
		"Stuff happens" was Secretary Rumsfeld's press conference response to a question about the looting of Baghdad's priceless archaeological heritage.
		The assumption here is that the writer knows the historical truth of the last two years and uses dramatic devices - the representation of character, the arousal of emotion, the sequence of narrative - to communicate them to us who don't, or aren't sure.
		Stuff Happens may well exhaust the current vogue for docudrama.
	www.curtainup.com /stuffhappens.html (1492 words)

	DoD News: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But in terms of what's going on in that country, it is a fundamental misunderstanding to see those images over, and over, and over again of some boy walking out with a vase and say, "Oh, my goodness, you didn't have a plan." That's nonsense.
		While you have just expressed yet again your dismay at the international news media, in fact, the reporting does factually show there are some certain number of Iraqi citizens that have spoken on-camera quite directly about their own concerns about the safety and security in Baghdad and that situation.
		They will, of necessity, follow along behind, although, as I said, when there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy, and if people have time, they'll look at it.
	www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2003/tr20030411-secdef0090.html (5332 words)

	Power Line: The "stuff happens" presidency
		And it's true that a lot of stuff has happened under Bush, and not just hurricanes.
		Two terror sponsoring regimes in a key part of the world, both of which were among the most grotesquely repressive in the world, have been overthrown.
		One bit of stuff hasn't happened (although that could change instantly) -- we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil in almost four full years.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/011596.php (204 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hare digs deep in 'Stuff Happens' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But the work in question, David Hare's Stuff Happens, deals with events that took place only a few years ago and premiered in 2004 at London's National Theatre.
		The title is lifted from Donald Rumsfeld's response to a reporter who asked the defense secretary to comment on the pillage that followed the conquest of Baghdad.
		Rumsfeld is a principal character in Stuff, which opened at the Forum Sunday, as are Bush; Vice President Cheney; former secretary of state Colin Powell; Powell's successor, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice; and other members of the Bush administration.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2005-06-09-stuff-happens_x.htm (845 words)

	"Stuff" Happens
		Fundamentalists — "Stuff" happens, I believe that "stuff" happens, and that settles it!
		Lutherans — Post a notice on the outside door declaring that the "stuff" is not justified.
		Democrats — Declare that the "stuff" had a right to happen because of the environmental factors that preceded it.
	www.extremelysmart.com /humor/stuff.php (645 words)

	Head Butler - Books
		And, in both the play and reality, the liberation of Iraq turns out to be a sand trap from which no one emerges looking good.
		If you're not, you may never get a chance to see it --- "Stuff Happens" requires a large cast, to say nothing of actors and a director who can do better than "Saturday Night Live" portrayals of these characters.
		To see if 'Stuff Happens" is as good as I thought it was, I've just read the 117-page book of the play.
	www.headbutler.com /books/stuff_happens.asp (780 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: STUFF HAPPENS:
		What the British could not do would be to punitively retaliate against the American civilians generally, by mass shootings of hostages or indiscriminate destruction of civilian property, as the Germans did in France and Belgium in WW I. The Law of War never requires suicide.
		I hold that distorting the LoW in the direction of legitimizing the use of human shields and delegitimizing engaging those who are using human shields runs directly contrary to the law's purpose of preventing unnecessary suffering on the part on non-combatants.
		What is happening is that the use of human shields is being rewarded and thus encouraged.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2006/08/stuff_happens_2.html (893 words)

	Welcome to the Public Theater
		The initial scheduled run was until April 30, but it was extended a further four weeks to May 28, and then again for four weeks until June 25.
		A provocative and thoughtful play about how and why we went to war in Iraq, Stuff Happens brought to the stage an ongoing story of great national and international importance, with characters and dialogue seemingly ripped from the dayâs headlines.
		Inspired by actual events, both public and private, that have been authenticated from multiple sources, Stuff Happens is a powerful history play that brilliantly transforms âreal lifeâ into profound drama.
	www.publictheater.org /view.php?mode=eventdisplay&eventid=489 (148 words)

	Great 'STUFF HAPPENS' in American Debut at Taper (BroadwayWorld.com)
		As Hare’s author’s note clearly states, “Stuff Happens is a history play, which happens to center on very recent history.” The ‘history’ of which he speaks, is the sequence of events that led ultimately to the invasion of Iraq by US and coalition forces in March of 2003.
		Stuff Happens — the title coming infamously from Rumsfeld when asked why there was looting occurring in the middle of Baghdad while the US occupied the city - is part theatre of the absurd, part cautionary tale, and part Shakespearean tragedy, and sometimes all three at the same time.
		Most powerful, however, is the final viewpoint, at the very end of the play, from an Iraqi man who blames the Iraqi people for their own fate saying, “A country’s leader is it own fault.” Truer words could not have been spoken, regardless of whether your leader is a dictator or an elected official.
	www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=3508 (1520 words)

	'Stuff Happens': Riots? Looting?
		And imagine if, as this happened, one of the nation's most prominent liberal officials excused the violence by saying, "Stuff happens," and then, when pressed, put a happy face on the looting by saying, "It's untidy.
		No one who has witnessed the faux patriotic policing of the discourse in recent weeks by America's conservative political and media elites could possibly doubt that such a response to rioting would send the yammering yahoos of the right into a frenzy of finger-pointing.
		Yet when rioters were tearing up the U.S.-controlled city of Baghdad last week, Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld responded by saying, "Stuff happens." Then, echoing statements of other Bush administration apparatchiks, Rumsfeld described the looting of the city as an "untidy" display of freedom.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0415-03.htm (880 words)

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