To Catch a Snail: A play based on a true story with a touch of exaggeration

Emma Pickford’s life of trainspotting and telemarketing addiction takes a turn for the worse when her Vietnam Vet husband Stan suddenly dies, and Emma reluctantly inherits his marijuana crop.

Her next-floor neighbour, a little person, a mad fortune teller and her stuffed poodle, a retired transvestite, and an ex-circus ringmaster all join in the fun of turning Emma’s life into a mad caper.

This is a play that mixes the Molièresque comical and the theatre of the absurd. It will tickle your funny bone!

“Daniel Soler’s witty, fast-paced comedy To Catch a Snail is reminiscent of the kind of vaudevillian entertainment performed by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keyton. From start to finish, Soler’s play never misses a beat. Indeed, I read it in one sitting and the characters veritably jumped off the page and into my living room!”

Kathryn Pentecost, Theatre Upstairs, Balmian; Met Theatre Katoomba; writer for artshub.com.

“Take a motley crew of dysfunctional characters with a variety of ethnic backgrounds and questionable proclivities, accelerate them through the Large Hadron Collider of a dadaistic playwright's brain, and watch them generate the "Godot Particle". In his two-act play, To Catch a Snail, Daniel Soler applies the long tradition of absurdist farce – from Molière, Labiche and Feydeau to Ionesco, Becket and Pinter – to the inherently tragi-comic reality of suburban Australia. The result is hilarious!”

Professor P. Zeebra