Julie Gester (writer &. co-director) Grace Walker (co-director) . A family of four escapes environmental disaster by shipping out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where they learn to survive off of humanity’s most abundant creation: trash. For seven years they've remained here, picking through food waste, reading water damaged books, and making art out of plastic bags. Life is actually just fine out on the garbage patch... Or is it? Are we actually happy… or are we just telling ourselves the things we need to hear to get through the day? At times funny, at other times dark, The Garbage Patch Dolls is about a family surviving off of ingenuity, delusions, and waste until ultimately they are forced to face what is real and what is plastic. This presentation of The Garbage Patch Dolls is a one night only staged reading in participation with the Tank’s TrashFest. CONTENT WARNING: suicidal thoughts, sharp objects, suffocation, stabbing, blood
