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Curious Creations brings the anticipated Waiting For Garbo to the Vancouver Fringe Festival of 2016. Writer and Director team Dawn Moore and Desmond Price worked together to create a play focused on recycling and its message is seen, first and foremost, in its content. What makes Waiting For Garbo stand out is its method of recycling dialogue, images, songs and characters, and piecing them together throughout the play. As you watch, a familiar melody will echo through the theatre, reinvented. You will recognize a retelling of a story, repurposed for this play. Bits of public lectures, video and script...

Sigh. I really wanted this to be good. The actor/writer duo of Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan have come all the way from New York City.  This is clearly a labour of love for them.  They’re young, smart, dedicated and talented, but their show just doesn’t work.

For me to explain what doesn’t work about this play, I need to first set the scene.  This is a two hander, loosely based on the childhood and short stories of lauded writer Edgar Allan Poe.  Sounds good...