 An ensemble cast plays over 40 roles during the 3-hour play, although the actors playing the principals—Bush, Rice, Powell—play only one role.In 2020, Andy Propst of "Time Out" dubbed "Stuff Happens" "one of the most impressive political dramas to emerge in recent memory" and ranked it the 30th greatest play of all time.David Hare's "Stuff Happens" is a play about the events that led up to the 2003 Iraq War.