The Source Festival, which runs from June 10 to July 3, has a lot of changes in its format this year. Its three major components (10-minute plays, full-length plays and “artistic blind dates”) will play throughout the three weeks, and audience members will be able to see the entire festival over marathon-performance weekends. “We realized last year that people took really well to the final week where you could see all three full-length plays in a day,” festival producer Jenny McConnell Frederick explained in a recent interview. “So we wondered how we could do that on a broader scale.”

The 10-minute plays are a massive undertaking in which Washington-based actors and directors come together with playwrights from across the country to mount 18 new productions.