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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 18 January 2008

Jane Gauntlett

Play by cyclist left in coma set to open

NEARLY a year after robbers knocked her off her bike and left her for dead at the roadside, artist Jane Gauntlett will mark her recovery from appalling head injuries by producing her first play this week.
Her production of The Dybbuk, a 1914 play by S Ansky which draws on Kabbalah myth to tell the tale of a woman possessed by spirits on the eve of her wedding, opens at The King’s Head Theatre in Upper Street, Islington, on Friday.
Ms Gauntlett, from Kentish Town, spent two weeks in a coma after she was attacked by three robbers on mopeds, who sent her flying from her bike when they grabbed her bag as she rode along Harrow Road last February.
Alexander Sztorc, 17, from Maida Vale, was jailed in October for four years for the attack.
A friend of Ms Gauntlett said: “Everyone who knows Jane, including her neighbours on the small estate where she lives, can only wish her the very best of luck for the future as we regularly see her cycling on her way to rehearsals.”

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