Carradine and Sands Lead as Bush and Blair in Iraq War Drama Stuff Happens

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Carradine and Sands Lead as Bush and Blair in Iraq War Drama Stuff Happens for US Debut
By Ernio Hernandez
14 Apr 2005





Keith Carradine


Keith Carradine and Julian Sands will play President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, respectively, in the American premiere of David Hare's drama Stuff Happens in Los Angeles. John Michael Higgins, Stephen Spinella, Dakin Matthews, Tyrees Allen, Lorraine Toussaint and John Vickery also appear.

Center Theatre Group's founding artistic director Gordon Davidson — who leaves the position after this season — directs the controversial Bush administration drama, May 25-July 17, as his farewell work. The opening night at CTG's Mark Taper Forum is slated for June 5.

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. The work debuted at London's National Theatre and has only appeared stateside in readings at the New York Theatre Workshop and Hartford Stage.

Carradine — recently seen on HBO's "Deadwood" as Wild Bill Hickock and on Broadway as the title character in The Will Rogers Follies — takes on the new American cowboy, President George W. Bush. British actor Sands — known stateside for his film turns in "Boxing Helena" and "Warlock" — will play his homeland leader Prime Minister Tony Blair.




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