Stuff Happens
by David Hare
Directed by Denise Blasor

“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 American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s famous response to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference on April 11, 2003, provides the title for this play about the extraordinary process leading up to the invasion of Iraq. How does the world settle its differences, now that there is only one superpower? What happens to leaders risking their credibility with skeptical publics? From events that dominated international headlines, David Hare fashioned both a historical narrative and a human drama about the frustrations of power and the limits of diplomacy. Featuring the BFA in Acting for Stage & Screen Junior Class.