David Mamet’s “November” Runs in Quogue for 3 Weeks

The first play of the Hampton Theatre Company’s 2016-2017 season will be “November,” David Mamet’s “hilarious and scathingly satirical take on American presidential politics” and will open on October 20 at the Quogue Community Hall and run through November 6 with shows on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

This season, the Hampton Theatre Company is offering $15 discount tickets for audience members 35 and under as well as an additional matinee performance on the final weekend of the production, on November 5, at 2:30 p.m., prior to the regular 8 p.m. performance.

“November” looks at first-term U.S. President Charles Smith in the final week before Election Day and analyzes an egomaniac with no chance or wining reelection that hasn’t given up hope. The play premiered on Broadway in 2008 and remains relevant during this contentious 2016-election season. The Guardian reviewed the Broadway production of “November” as “a savage farce,” with David Mamet “in contention for the title of America’s best living playwright.” USA Today called the play “punchline packed.”

“At once a barbarian, a bully, and an idiot…Smith brings oxygen to Mamet’s rhetorical brilliance—so much so that Mamet seems almost giddy with pleasure as he makes his cretinous creation squirm,” John Lahr wrote in his review in The New Yorker.

The cast of “November” stars four HTC veterans and one newcomer. Playing Charles Smith is longtime HTC company member Andrew Botsford. Matthew Conlon will play the role of chief of staff Archer Brown, Rebecca Edana the head speechwriter Clarice Bernstein, Matthew O’Connor, the Turkey Representative, and newcomer Rob Byrnes has the role of Dwight Grackle.

HTC Artistic Director Diana Marbury will direct the play with set design by Sean Marbury, lighting design by Sebastian Paczynski and costumes by Teresa LeBrun.

The Hampton Theatre Company will be offering dinner and theater packages in collaboration with the Hampton Bays and Quogue libraries. Information about the packages is available at www.hamptontheatre.org, or through the libraries.

To reserve tickets, visit www.hamptontheatre.org, or call OvationTix at 1-866-811-4111. For more information please call (631)653-8955 or email info@hamptontheatre.org.