Director, performer, collaborator, actress, troublemaker and jack-of-all-trades Zoe Klinger heads the Moral Support theatre company as well as The Friends of Gagarin, an anarchic site-specific, interactive, “spontaneous theatre” collective combining Russian cultural history with circus visuals, masque, burlesque, grotesque, pomp and Perestroika. The Friends of Gagarin have a regular residency at the Notting Hill Arts Club and have performed at the Barbican and the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell and are currently collaborating on the making of a documentary.