We went to opening night of "Stuff Happens" at ACT last night. Whew! This is an impressive political play that dramatizes the events leading up to the Iraq war. Characters include George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz -- much of the dialog is taken directly from press conferences, interviews and speeches stitched together with fictional (yet believable/highly probable) scenes.

This is obviously heavy stuff. It's worth seeing for the realistic portrayal of the political figures (pretty funny at times) and for the accurate retelling of this story - many POV are conveyed (it helped me finally wrap my mind around why Blair was behind the push to go to war, for example.) This is a tight, well done, well cast production. It runs until July 22nd.

https://www.acttheatre.org/TicketsPlays/Play.aspx?prod=45