This summer marks the fifth year Washington will be home to the Source Festival. From Friday through July 1, the festival will present 24 original works for the stage: three full-length plays, 18 10-minute plays and three Artistic Blind Dates.

The festival’s 10-minute plays are organized around three themes, each inspired by one of the full-length plays. The first full-length play is “Qualities of Starlight” by Gabriel Dean, in which Theo Turner is a young cosmologist who suffers a personal “big bang” when he visits his parents in the Appalachian South and finds them living a very unconventional life.