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(Roundhouse), Guide Below the Salt (Shoreditch Town Hall); performer: Living Sculptures (V&A Museum), Dr Watson The Hound of the Baskervilles (Espoo), Countess Roussillon All’s Well That Ends Well (Espoo).
    Adrienne Smook (Vocal Coach)
Adrienne is a Canadian voice coach and actor currently undertaking an MA in Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. Her teaching placements have included Central School of Speech and Drama and RADA, and before moving to London she taught voice and speech in the Theatre Arts program at Rocky Mountain College in Calgary, Canada. Production credits include: movement/voice coach for Sage Theatre’s award-winning production of Hedwig and The Angry Inch . Recent acting credits include: The 39 Steps (Vertigo Theatre), The Penelopiad (Alberta Theatre Projects), and The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Sage Theatre). Adrienne is a graduate of the University of Alberta BFA Acting Program.
    Jessica Thanki (Stage Manager)
BA in Theatre Production. Since graduating Jessica has stage managed the following shows: The Maid (Rich Mix, Odd Man Out Productions), Double Dutch Espresso (Tristan Bates Theatre, Theatre Waah), Measure for Measure (The Oval House, BADA), Maybe Father (The Young Vic, TALAWA), Behna 2010 (Kali Theatre co-production with Birmingham Rep and Black Country Touring), It Hasn’t Happened Yet (Tour, Liz Carr), Behna 2011 (Site specific, Kali Theatre), SQUID (School Tour, Theatre Royal Stratford East), Brixton Rocks (Tour, TARA Arts), Tagore’s Women (Southwark Playhouse, Kali Theatre Company). She company stage managed Black I (The Oval House Theatre, Kali Theatre Company), Gandhi and Coconuts , (Tour, Kali Theatre), Mustafa (Tour, Kali Theatre Company co-production with Birmingham Rep). Jessica was shortlisted for Stage Manager of the Year 2011 by the Stage Management Association.
    Ana Vilar (Lighting Designer)
Ana is a London-based freelance lighting designer, re-lighter and consultant. She combines her career in lighting with photography, art and design, exploiting these skills throughout her practice. From 2010 she has been an active member of an exclusive lighting company, Urban Electric, working as a Lighting Engineer and Product specialist in neon installation. Recent work in dance and theatre includes relighting Lucy Hansom’s design for James Wilton dance company’s piece Cave at the Northern Ballet theatre, Leeds, lighting design for The Typewriters’ piece The Dead Can Dance at the London Contemporary Dance Theatre in London and lighting design for Outside Puppets show The Thinker at the Roundhouse, London. She has a BA(Hons) in Photography from School of Arts, Huesca, Spain and BA in Theatre Practice (Lighting Design for Performance) from Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

“I am a sort of justice fanatic”
An interview with Elfriede Jelinek by Simon Stephens
    This interview was conducted by email in May 2012 on the occasion of the upcoming English-language premiere of Sports Play by Just a Must theatre company .
    Simon Stephens: Sports Play is extraordinary. It’s funny and savage and satirical and beautiful. As the Olympics arrive in London it also feels enjoyably timely. I can’t work out whether it is born out of faith in human potential or fear of human potential. The play seems to fly because it is carved from both faith and fear, or if not fear then disappointment. What disappoints you about our cultural obsession with sport? What inspires you about the same thing?
    Elfriede Jelinek: I don’t think you can call it disappointment. It would seem absurd to me to be disappointed about something as global as the enthusiasm for sport. What disappoints me is rather the disdain for intellectual achievements in comparison to sports achievements. But who am I to complain about this. It makes me feel like a worm! Rather, what causes me fear (and this is perhaps a kind of obsession) is the way the masses get charged up