Stuff Happens
Stuff Happens
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Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:35pmDavid Hare's anti-Bush play "Stuff Happens" will receive its American premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in LA. It will run from May 25 thru July 17. The show was highly acclaimed in London and received a reading at the New York Theatre Workshop. If you're a Republican, keep on walking. This is not your show.
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Posted: 4/14/05 at 2:59pm
What a cast! I can't wait for this -
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92347.html
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Posted: 4/14/05 at 3:20pmAre there plans to bring it back to NYC, at all?
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Posted: 4/15/05 at 12:18amNow if only Gordon Davidson weren't directing...This is a long play as is (3 hours) and Davidson is not a director who paces well or cares about moving the action along. The last two shows he directed that I've seen "Like Jazz" and "Talking Cure" were dreadfully staged. The direction in Like Jazz was truly the worst direction of a musical that I've seen in years.
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
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Posted: 4/15/05 at 1:23amI saw the reading at NYTW and couldn't, for the life of me, see what the big deal about this play was, other than just the mere fact that Bush, Blair, Powell, Rice et al were characters in a play. It's just standard, straight forward journalistic reportage without any real point of view or style or cleverness or insight (it's really not even anti-Republican; it's just the facts and didn't seem terribly slanted to me -- obviously Bush & company don't come off too well at times, but that's just the reality). Much of it is just an assemblage of verbatim quotes from the public record from all of these key figures -- many of which I had heard before; a few "behind closed door meetings" are inventions by Hare and aren't any more interesting. For anyone who's read the papers and/or paid attention to the news in the last few years, it was completely unilluminating. I remember that several of the major New York critics were there (Winer, Kissell, Lahr, Brantley et al) and at the end of the three hours I looked at them and they all seemed to have the same reaction I did -- there was a collective shrug of the shoulders which seemed to say "Huh?"
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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