However slippery and accommodating his nature, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Julian Sands) is still a proper Brit. He wants to traverse the road to the invasion of Iraq in rational steps--lots of jaw-jaw at the United Nations before war-war begins. President George W. Bush, played with implacable self-righteousness by Keith Carradine, is of a different mind. As imagined by David Hare in Stuff Happens, the only voice Bush hears or heeds belongs to God, who is in a bellicose mood. Both recent history and the laws of dramaturgy tell us, even before the beginning of the play--in its U.S. premiere at...
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