This is the last full week of Capital Fringe Festival before the late-July extension. (Time flies!) Here’s how we recommend you spend it.

TUESDAY, JULY 18

(Photo by Yannick Godts)

OUR PICK: It’s all right there in the title: Abortion Road Trip is poignant, funny and topical. It’s everything a Fringe show should be. I loved it, and you will too. (5 p.m.; Logan Fringe Arts Space, Trindad Theater)

ALSO PLAYING: “Weird science” comes to life in the surprisingly powerful one-woman show Quantum Suicide: A Talk by Professor Sophie Miller, which is much more than an academic lecture. It’s an examination of deeply ingrained human emotions that pulls no punches. (7 p.m.; Caos on F)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19

Go inside the Israel-Palestine conflict with “It’s What We Do.”. (Photo courtesy of Capital Fringe)

OUR PICK: Few subjects are more politically and emotionally charged than the Israel-Palestine conflict. That’s why “It’s What We Do”: A Play About the Occupation” is so moving; its characters’ experiences are drawn from real life, and they help uncover a human element that’s often missing from those discussions. Our critic Seth Rose says the show is “worth seeing based on the script alone.” (9:45 p.m.; Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lab II)

ALSO PLAYING: Here’s a fascinating thought experiment: What if John F. Kennedy wasn’t assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963? What if he simply reached his destination after an uneventful motorcade? Lancer and Lace plunges viewers into an intriguing alternate reality. (5:15 p.m.; Pursuit Wine Bar)

THURSDAY, JULY 20

Cannibal! The Musical boasts more than 40 handmade puppets. (Photo courtesy of HalfMad Theatre)

OUR PICK: Before South Park, before The Book of Mormon, there was Cannibal! The Musical. HalfMad Theater’s production is notable not only for reviving an early work from two influential pop culture figures, but for incorporating a new element not in the original script: lots and lots of puppets. (7:30 p.m.; Atlas Performing Arts, Sprenger Theater)

ALSO PLAYING: Women fight back against street harassment in the crowdsourced piece Think Before You Holla, which aims to make people feel more comfortable openly discussing catcalling and other such unpleasant phenomena. (6:30 and 9 p.m.; Joe’s Movement Emporium)

FRIDAY, JULY 21

Dance and narration combine to examine the grief of a relationship cut short in The Kind of Thing That Would Happen. (Photo courtesy of Capital Fringe)

OUR PICK: Monologue, music, and dance all play a role in The Kind of Thing That Would Happen, which watches a relationship crumble and examines the grief that results. We wrotes, “It’s meta, yes, but the questions are thought-provoking enough that you probably won’t mind.” (5:45 p.m.; Gallaudet University, Elstad Auditorium)

ALSO PLAYING: 8 Bit Circus Sh*t in five words: Pyro, baby. So much pyro. Our Allie Goldstein sums it up best: “You know a show is going to be interesting when a crew member is stationed strategically to ‘watch for body fires.'” (8:30 p.m.; Old City Farm & Guild)

SATURDAY, JULY 22

The story of a student who accuses his professor of racism plays out across multiple perspectives in Paper. (Photo courtesy of Capital Fringe)

OUR PICK: A debate that often proceeds without nuance gets some shades of gray in Paper, in which a student accuses her professor of racism. Each scene plays out from several angles, a storytelling choice that our Seth Rose lauds: “Framing the conflict from multiple perspectives allows the show to advance a useful dialogue without succumbing to banalities of the binary.” (1:45 p.m.; Logan Fringe Arts Space)

ALSO PLAYING: MacBheatha isn’t your English professor’s Shakespeare production. (I refrained from saying it isn’t your mother’s Shakespeare professor, because I don’t know your mother.) “Aerial silks, acrobatics, and verse” add new meaning and visual interest to the Scottish play. (2:45 p.m.; Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang)

SUNDAY, JULY 23

Caveat makes fun of the kinds of people everyone who’s looked for a group house in D.C. will recognize. (Photo courtesy of Capital Fringe)

OUR PICK: Few experiences are more relatable to young D.C. residents than the hunt for a group house. Caveat mines that tradition for laughter of recognition. Our Julie Strupp was charmed: “This group house with a blow-up mattress could be any group house with a blow-up mattress.” (12 p.m.; Gallaudet University, Eastman Studio Theater)

ALSO PLAYING: Release: A Rock Opera delivers on powerful belting and outsized fashion. At the Fringe preview event, the lead actor told the audience that the show follows three characters with different ailments: PTSD, autism, and “since it’s a rock opera” — drug abuse. (4:30 p.m.; Gallaudet University, Elstad Auditorium)

See here for all of DCist’s 2017 Capital Fringe coverage. All shows are $17, with a button ($7) required for entry.