Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet's play shows you don't have to be the sharpest tool in the shed to be the most dangerous weapon in the world.

Director: Adam Cook

Designer: Victoria Lamb

Lighting Designer: Mark Pennington

Cast: Michaela Cantwell, Garry McDonald

Set just days before a presidential election, November by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, proves once and for all there's no lower place than the highest office in the land.

Meet President Charles Smith, the most corrupt, inept buffoon ever to sit in the Oval Office. It's the final days of his bid for a second term, but the country is a mess and his poll numbers are "lower than Ghandi's cholesterol". Toss in a lesbian speechwriter longing to marry her sweetheart on national television, a cynical Chief of Staff, Thanksgiving turkeys awaiting pardon, and some shady backroom scheming and you've got a hilarious masterpiece.

A scathingly entertaining take on the state of American politics today and the lengths to which the powerful will go to stay in power in any country, November shows that you don't have to be the sharpest tool in the shed to be the most dangerous weapon in the world.

In a role performed by Nathan Lane in the Broadway premiere, State Theatre Company of SA welcomes Australian acting legend Garry McDonald as President Charles Smith. Garry last worked with State Theatre Company in 2006's Uncle Vanya.

"November is a hilarious demonstration of the fact that we live in an age of equality: all classes are criminal," says Director Adam Cook.

"A political farce about the President's desperate attempt to raise his public approval rating [sound familiar?], it's scathingly funny, and with my friend and comedic star Garry McDonald as our Master of the Revels for the evening, it's going to be bliss on toast!"