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June 22, 2006 The 25th anniversary Baltimore Playwrights Festival gets off to a weighty start this weekend with Turn Your Head and Kafka by Laura Ridgeway. Produced by Run of the Mill Theater and directed by its new artistic director, Jenny Tibbels, the play intermingles elements from Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial, with his correspondence with his mistress, journalist Milena Jesenska. Brian Oakes and Julia Brandeberry star. The silver anniversary season also features five other productions, including three bills of one-acts. Here's the full schedule: The Past is the Present (four one-act plays - Willie Baby by Joe Dennison, Carol Weinberg and Kimberley Lynne; Memory Garden and Wilderness, both by Mark Scharf; and Miss Alice Plays by Rich Espey), Fell's Point Corner Theatre, June 29-July 23; A Modern Pas de Deux by Susan Middaugh, Vagabond Players, July 28-Aug. 6; Two one-acts - Return of the 5th Sister by Lynne and SOD by Mark Squirek, Mobtown Players at Meadow Mill, Aug. 4-20; Hope's Arbor by Espey, Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, Aug. 11-27; and Split by Ira Gamerman, Uncommon Voices at Fell's Point Corner, Aug. 10-27.
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