Goat in the Road Productions will present the second biennial Forge Festival this month. The micro festival, which features genre-bending performance work from some of the most accomplished theater artists in New Orleans, will take place May 11-13 and May 17-20 at The Fortress of Lushington (2215 Burgundy St.). It will be Goat in the Road’s last presentation of the 2017-2018 season.

Since its founding in 2008, Goat in the Road Productions has created 15 original plays for adult audiences and created vibrant educational programming for New Orleans students. Their meticulously researched, beautifully designed work uses history and science to comment on current social trends. They have toured nationwide and won multiple Big Easy Theater Awards. They also run Play/Write, a program focused on fostering young playwrights, producing the work of middle school students with professional actors.

“It’s hard for theater people to talk about the work they do,” GRP Co-Artistic Director Chris Kaminstein wrote in a piece for Popsmart NOLA. “Whatever we say the show is ‘about’ is not really what the show is about. Sure, Hamlet is a play about a prince who is grieving his dead father. And Death of a Salesman is about a man who loses his job. And A Raisin in the Sun is about a family who decides to move. I mean, none of these shows are about what they’re about. The words are inadequate. What are these plays about? Life, man. Life.”

This edition of Forge Festival will feature four theatrical works: The Distance of Sound (Darci Fulcher, Shannon Flaherty), The Night With Mr. Bismuth (Dylan Hunter), Shakesbeer (Mark Routhier), Machine A (Cecile Montayne, Chris Kaminstein); and This Must Be the Place (Jen Davis), an interactive art installation.

Tickets to Forge festival are available now, starting at $15. For more information, visit GoatintheRoadProductions.org.