100 Wounded Tears has won an Angel Award from The Herald newspaper. This is one of the biggest and most prestigious awards at the festival.

Deep breath. Fingers crossed. Could they do it again? Last year, DOT504 from the Czech Republic breenged on-stage at Zoo Southside with Holdin' Fast, a heat-seeking missile of a dance-theatre piece that took no prisoners - but did send a purring pussycat (in the guise of a cleverly knowing sex kitten) onto the surprised laps of gentlemen in the audience. Guess what? The current offering, 100 Wounded Tears (*****) doesn't just match the quirky invention and the physical drive and finesse of that piece: it surpasses it, delving more deeply than Holdin' Fast into the dark and brutal reaches of what we do to one another and ourselves ... in the name of love, country or honour. Subtitled "14 Images of Lost Despair", it's a mosaic of incidents featuring seven characters who could well have strayed out of a Brecht play or a performance by the legendary Kantor. There are little rituals that suggest a community in the aftermath of a disaster. One woman is apparently trying to bury the past, one spoonful of earth at a time. But there are grievances, grudges, lusts and disappointed dreams festering under the surface of the gorgeous, exuberant outbursts of folkloric camaraderie and DOT504 don't shy away from shows of rape, humiliation and reprisals. Despite the visceral bleakness, 100 Wounded Tears is defiant in asserting not just our hunger for life, but our need to laugh and move on. Emblematic imagery - with earth, bread, ash-white dust and nakedness all used with potent, poetic effect - and the sheer gutsy attack of the dance simply reinforce last year's impression: this is a company worth watching, but be quick, their run ends on August 15.
The Herald, Mary Brennan, August 11 2009

from the chat:
Excellent! 12 Aug 2009
Go see. Simply brilliant. Definitely worth the fifth star.
reviewer: M, UK
12 Aug 2009
incredibly powerful brilliantly exectued i can't recommed this show highly enough. Some may say a the 'plot' is confusing but it really doesnt matter. The only crime was the pitiful number of people in the audience GO SEE IT!
reviewer: vanessa
100 Wounded tears 11 Aug 2009
5 star performance by a group of young Slovak and Czech artists. Everyone’s story presented in powerful movements and great choreography. Birth, friendships and love, pride and hate, enslaving of a human soul and death expressed in an unusual way, so strong that it will resonate in one’s mind for a long time. A MUST see show of this year festival.
reviewer: AtilaZ, Slovakia