With Thanksgiving over and Christmas on the way, the Gamm Theatre has made its second show of the season a work that’s both a funny and catastrophic look at America today. But the Public’s Radio theater critic Bill Gale says this thoughtful play is perhaps not for everyone.

Bill Gale has had a widely varied career (including a stint as an air traffic controller) before dedicating himself to The Providence Journal for 35 years — 25 of those as the Journal's theater...