What do you get when a liberal, obviously embittered playwright sets out amidst the second term of the second Bush Administration to write a political satire about a conservative, buffoon-ish, sitting president whose poll numbers rival "Ghandi's cholesterol numbers" and a lesbian speech writer who wants to marry her partner? You get "November," an already dated-feeling and minor play by the whip-smart David Mamet that plays for mostly cheap laughs and a handful of clever one-liners. [Spoiler alert: We're now going to reveal several of the play's plot points.]

A.C.T.'s production stars Andrew Polk as President Charles Smith (a role originated on Broadway by Nathan Lane in January '08, when this play perhaps seemed a bit more nervously fresh), an apparent Republican who got lucky the first time around, but just days before his second election is staring at extremely low popularity figures and empty campaign coffers. In order to fund a presidential library, he seizes an opportunity to extort $200 million from the turkey producers of America by threatening to give a speech making the case for eating fish on Thanksgiving instead.