“How to turn the bloody truths of the Iraq war into mass entertainment is a problem that has repeatedly bedeviled Hollywood executives. Even The Hurt Locker, which won the Academy Award for best picture last year, earned only $17 million domestically.” Coming to Broadway, where ticket prices are ten times those of movies, is a play “that starts with a behanding, … and features no less than Uday Hussein clutching the severed head of his brother, Qusay.”