Still flying high on Obama fumes? Can’t quite set your feet squarely back on earth? I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who felt that way as I headed into Farragut North, which has just opened off-Broadway. The piece dials us back to those now distant days of January, when the US presidential primary season was in full swing and candidates and their staff crunched their rivals underfoot like week-old snow in Des Moines.

Among the victims in Beau Willimon’s two-act, nine-scene drama are a 19-year-old intern, Molly, whose idealism tumbles as quickly as her hair once it is freed for a sex scene. Most of the others (in the cast of seven) are too pushy, striving or cold-heartedly professional to embrace victim status.