And what did Schenk think of November? "The kind of humor Mamet has is really my kind of thing," he says. "At our first reading, at some points I couldn't stop laughing and had to rest between jokes. As not a native speaker, a lot of the jokes I didn't get the first time and had to ask native speakers what they meant. And many of them are local American jokes. Very local: The Americans and Canadians were saying, 'Some of this is so local, not even all Americans would understand it.' But when we did the play, I was actually quite surprised by how much the audience got the jokes."