RIOT DAYS

Maria AlYOKHINA

Author of the Riot Days book, playwright, performer. Political activist and artist, spent two years in Russian prison for anti-Putin "punk prayer" action
Alina Petrova

Performer, composer, multi-instrumentalist. The co-founder of the Kymatic ensemble, an outstanding group of young musicians dedicated to developing performance practices in the post-modern academic music field
Taso Pletner

Performer, singer, musician: flute. Graduate of Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop at the Moscow Art Theater School
Olga Borisova

Editor of the Riot Days book, performer, singer. Political activist, ex-policewoman in Russia, quit her job to protest against the regime
Eric Breitenbach

Multidisciplinary musician, producer, drummer, core member of New Age Doom. On tour with Riot Days, Eric brings a fierce energy and dynamic presence to the stage.
Alexander Cheparukhin

Producer of the show. Founder of GreenWave Music company. Artistic director of the number of international musical festivals
Dmitrii Kuminov

VJ, sound engineer, visual artist, technical director. Political activist, participated in many Pussy Riot actions after 2012
Diana Burkot

Ex-member. Performer, composer, singer, musician: drums, keyboards. Political activist, participated in "punk prayer" action. Performs solo project called Rosemary Loves A Blackberry
Max AWOTT

Ex-member. Performer, composer, musician: drums, keyboards
Nastya AWOTT

Ex-member. Performer, composer, singer, musician: saxophone
Kirill Masheka

Ex-member. Performer, singer, assistant playwright and director. Ex-member of the Belarus Free Theatre
Anton Ponomarev

Ex-member. Performer, musician: saxophone. Performs solo with free improvised music, noise, power-electronics, experimental and punk jazz
Poluo

Ex-member. Performer, musician: trumpet, drums
Vasily Bogatov

Ex-member. VJ. Documentary filmmaker, visual artist
Yuriy Muravitsky

Ex-member. Director of the show. Chief director of the Taganka Theatre

ABOUT THE SHOW

Riot Days is a play based on the memoir of Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina. It's a story of resistance, repression and revolution in a mixture of concert, rally, theatre and political happening.

The show has toured all over the world, it gave more than 200 performances in most of Europe, USA, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand and has received prestigious international awards, including Herald Angel Award, Lustrum Award and Total Theatre Award of Edinburgh Festivals.

"New revolutionary electronic punk opera"

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

"It’s impossible to look away. Powerful and exhilarating"

THE GUARDIAN

"Swaggering, throbbing gig. Clever and enthralling"

THE TIMES

"Full of fierce, rousing joy, free of scripted cues ... Poetic, razor-sharp and disarmingly witty ... Riot Days convinced me that gigs still have the power to move the masses"

CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON ANDREWS

"Darkly humorous, while intelligent lyrics paint a bleak representation of years of suppressed activism"

LOUD AND QUIET

"Stunning audio-visual experience ... Inventive, passionate, darkly funny in parts, twitching with energy and intelligent defiance and anger and yet full of compassion this is a moral tale for our times ... Delivered with an intense brilliance"

LOUDER THAN WAR

"Far from being a conventional gig, it is instead a hard-hitting, punk spirited and encapsulating piece of art theatre"

THE ARGUS

"It went down a storm"

BRIGHTON NEWS

"There is no doubt that the absolutely obscene actions that take place on stage, containing insults of Russia and its leadership, have nothing to do with culture or art"

RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN SWITZERLAND

AWARDS

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«An anger in the air that is powerful and unmistakeable»

THE SKINNY

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«This is Pussy Riot unmasked in a blitz of a show that is part history lesson, part living newspaper»

THE HERALD

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«It’s loud and foulmouthed resistance remains a thorn, however symbolic»

THE BROAD

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«Unique and powerful»

THE SCOTSMAN

«Something almost spiritual. Ritual remembrance»

THE THEATRE TIMES

«This show is alarming, eye-opening, gripping, and a call to action»

FRINGE REVIEW

«This show continues to be a clear form of resistance, the protest doesn’t end when the curtain closes»

THE LIST MAGAZINE

«Essential mix of an exhilarating, ready-to-revolt attitude, and a heart full of love»

CORR BLIMEY

ABOUT THE BOOK

A Maria Alyokhina's riveting account of her years in Russia’s criminal system and of finding power in the most powerless of situations.

In February 2012 Pussy Riot performed a "punk prayer", taking on the Orthodox church and its support for Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. For this, they were charged with "organized hooliganism". That trial became an international cause.

Alyokhina's two-year sentence launched a bitter struggle against the Russian prison system and an iron-willed refusal to be deprived of her humanity.

"A women's prison memoir like no other"

MARGARET ATWOOD

"A pacy page-turner … A piece of art in itself"

THE GUARDIAN

"Brilliantly written you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last page"

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

"Raw and restless ... Captures a moment when change seemed possible"

THE TELEGRAPH

"A future cult classic"

VOGUE

"A bold, urgent account of activism and imprisonment by a member of Pussy Riot"

THE FINANCIAL TIMES

"Extraordinary... A powerful and poignant prison diary"

THE IRISH TIMES

"Brilliant and inspiring. This book is freedom"

CHRIS KRAUS

CONTACTS

pussyriot@riotdays.com