55 Ten November by Steven Dietz dir Jonathan Browning, Wig Theatre. Ten November is a lyrical rumination on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, November 10, 1975. A 9 person cast augmented with 3 vocalists and in our case two guitars, we performed as an off night at the old National Pastime space on N Sheridan, with a final performance on November 10th, at the old Annoyance space on Clark & Grace. I had to move the morning after opening. My dad offered to let me borrow his pickup for the move, but I had to take the train out there to pick it up. I told the new tenants I would be out by five. I woke up late and missed my train and the next one wasn’t for another two hours. When I finally got out there, no keys. So I had to hunt my father down, get my VERY pregnant stepsister who lived close to let me borrow her car so I could drive to the job site where my dad was, pick up the keys, drop off the car, get the truck and then get back into the city and START moving. Which by then was 2 o’clock. Because of the time crunch and the fact that I had to get the truck back to the burbs that night, I lost a lot of actual tangible memorabilia (and my record player and albums) because I didn’t have time to move them. I was also moving into a roommate situation, where the two guys had been there for a while, so no room for extraneous furniture outside my bedroom. I had put money down on a studio, but they denied me at the last minute due to my previous money woes and defaulting on my student loan. Luckily my friend Becks told me my other friend Ray Wild was looking for a roommate to fill a vacancy. In 1997 I was paying $278 a month for my bedroom in a 3 BR Lincoln Square apt. That’s probably the most impossible thing to believe these days. #retrospective #1997 #tennovember #stevendietz #jonathanbrowning #wigtheatre #thewreckoftheedmundfitgerald #nationalpastimetheatre #annoyancetheatre #movingwoes #lincolnsquare #raywild (at Sheridan & Buena) https://www.instagram.com/p/B57t2PXpsVc/?igshid=mpnplhxgmvp3
