COLLATERAL DAMAGE.(Stuff Happens)(Theater Review)

"I don't do nuance," President Bush has reportedly said. Fortunately, David Hare does. Although he is sometimes sniffy about journalism--he titled his own volume of feuilletons "Writing Left-Handed"--Hare functions best as a dramatist when he assumes the role of reporter and allows his intellectual curiosity to override his literary immodesty. For more than a decade, his plays have brought us news from the inner sanctums of power: the Anglican Church ("Racing Demon," 1990), the legal system ("Murmuring Judges," 1991), the Labour Party ("The Absence of War," 1993), and the management of the British railways ("The Permanent Way," 2003). Now, in his best political play yet, ...