Good theater isn’t just about snappy dialog or an emotionally-wrenching plot. A new theater festival will prove just that when it showcases nonverbal theater for an audience of both deaf and hearing individuals. We think this is a feat worth driving to Baltimore to check out.

The QuestFest nonverbal theater festival opened this Monday and runs through the next two weekends. The festival features performances by Gallaudet Productions, the theater group associated with D.C.’s Gallaudet University.

Gallaudet will perform Alice, an unusual take on the “Alice in Wonderland” story, which takes a more visual, colorful approach to the tale. Gallaudet University studentsprofessors also penned In Goya: en la Quinta del Sordo, a play about the Spanish artist; and The Snow Queen, an acrobatic production of the Hans Christian Anderson story.