We’re at the midway point of the Fringe Festival, and we have all of one show opening today. That show is Erica McLaughlin’s Love And Wood, from the Unmentionable Theatre Company. The play’s heroine, Morgan, finds herself in a lover’s triangle between two affectionate men, and struggles to reconcile the intellectual fullfillment she receives from one with the erotic fulfillment of the other.

Pretty heady stuff, and if the play’s anywhere near as compelling as the Unmentionable’s own story, it should be well worth the trip. The Unmentionable Theatre Company began at UMBC between a handful of students with seven dollars and a dream. They staged their first productions at someone’s apartment, but have garnered a fair share of praise from the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore City Paper. Now they are enthusiastic Fringers: “We believe this is what a Fringe Festival is all about,” says McLaughlin, “it gives young people like me, full of ideas, a legitimate venue to display our original work. It’s a way in, therefore giving us the opportunity to impact significant change in theater.”

The public face of Capitol Fringe is one of ranging chaos–out-of-the-mainstream art forms take over territory and, for many productions, “check your superego at the door” is the aesthethic order of the day. But behind this backdrop, there are artists and companies who have a lot at stake and who are taking important developmental steps. We find Unmentionable’s frozen moment worth mentioning because it’s precisely this sort of passion that led those eight companies to crash the party in Edinburgh sixty years ago and establish the Fringe Festival as a whole.

So, go see their show. Tonight at the Goethe-Institut, at 6 p.m.

For the rest of tonight’s offerings, which include beloved local burlesque performer Trixie Little as the special guest of the Cheeky Monkey Sideshow, head here. And, as always, get to where you’re going with DCist’s Fringe GoogleMap.