Occupational Hazards review " headlong rush through Rory Stewart's Iraq memoir
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis adaptation shows the nightmarish conflicts faced by Stewart as a provincial governor in Iraq but fails to connect with the bigger political pictureThere have been plays, such as David Hare's Stuff Happens, that examined the causes of western intervention in Iraq. Stephen Brown's adaptation of Rory Stewart's 2006 memoir of his time as a provincial governor in post-Saddam Iraq is one of th…