Nomination VSCD Mime Award 2002

Snail Trails was nominated for the VSCD Mime Award 2002

The award jury’s report:

All the Hotel Modern’s plays explore the interplay of relationships, and Snail Trails marks a continuation of that journey. This play offers a glimpse into the mind of an elderly lady who is apparently losing her grip on her surroundings and her own body. The irregular tick-tocking of the clock by turns slows and accelerates time. Household objects suddenly appear at unexpected places. The hand of the woman as she stirs in her teacup is mimicked by an identical hand that appears through the wall to join in the stirring. A shrimp that emerges from a biscuit tin proves to be the herald of adventure that the woman experiences outside the house, in a city populated by shrimps. That adventure takes the form of a film in which the lonely lady is shrunk down to become a small puppet in a scale-model city. In the film the elderly woman’s alienation is conveyed movingly, inventively and in a sometimes childlike and naive way. Snail Trails offers a breath-taking visual display that transports the spectator to that interstitial space between fantasy and reality, and offers to the bewildered the solace of a fabulous imagination.

2002