Tue, Aug 12
|The Marcelle
There Is Something I Must Tell You
Claire goes in search of information about her great-grandmother at the Jamestown State Hospital and encounters the ghosts of those who lived and died there. Over the course of one night, she is visited by the ghosts of soldiers, mothers, and immigrants. Based upon archival records.
Time & Location
Aug 12, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
The Marcelle, Samuel Shepard Dr, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
About the Event
RATING | Mature Audience
Genre: Theatre
WARNING: Sensitive subject matters: Veteran PTSD, murder, immigration trauma, Native American boarding school trauma, misogyny.
Claire, 5-months pregnant, goes in search of information about her great-grandmother at the Jamestown State Hospital in North Dakota. She begins in the silence of the hospital's cemetery, where those who were unclaimed by family or friends were buried, including her great-grandmother. How did she end up here? No one in her family seems to know. Claire visits the hospital archives in hope of unraveling the mystery. While pouring over old medical logs, she is accidentally locked in for the night. She is soon besieged by the ghosts of patients who were admitted to the state's first mental asylum and never left. Their spirits demand to tell their story. Claire has no choice but to listen. As she bears witness she confronts her own fears of mental illness. Ghosts…
Tickets
General Admission - STL Fringe
$16.00
+$0.80 Sales Tax
+$0.42 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00