With a performance close to her birthday, we celebrate the muse to one of the greatest writers of her age, creator of the flappers of the ‘20s, a rambunctious southern belle, aspiring ballerina, and ultimately a woman whose mental health destroyed her during a time when help was beyond reach. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a mythic presence in literary history with deep ties to Baltimore. F. Scott and Zelda would spend more of their marriage here than they would anywhere else, as Zelda’s schizophrenia, perhaps misdiagnosed, was treated at Sheppard Pratt and Johns Hopkins Phipp’s Clinic.

New York City actress Kate Erin Gibson’s passionate, one-woman performance directed by Carmela Lanza-Weill uses the language of Zelda’s letters, some of which were plagiarized by her author husband for his novels. Set in her psychiatrist’s office in an Asheville, North Carolina insane asylum on the last day of Zelda's life, the play unfolds as a hypnotic session. Zelda tells of her rebellion against the strictures of being raised a southern belle, of her glamorous but destructive marriage, and her ultimate mental disintegration. With costumes by Erin Heintzinger and sound design by Izze Gibson and Collin Warren. 8pm | $18, $15 mbrs.

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