pussy riot
RIOT DAYS




pussy riot
RIOT DAYS











pussy riot
RIOT DAYS
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May 31, 2025
Klagenfurt Festival, A
Pussy Riot in conversation
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June 1, 2025
Klagenfurt Festival, A
RIOT DAYS show
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June 17, 2025
Tübingen, D
Sudhaus
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June 18, 2025
Rubigen, CH
Mühle Hunzigen
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June 20, 2025
St. Johann, A
Alte Gerberei
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June 22, 2025
Dresden, D
Theater
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June 23, 2025
Stralsund, D
Bühne Blechwerk
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June 24, 2025
Hamburg, D
Fabrik
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June 26, 2025
Den Haag, NL
PAARD
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June 27, 2025
Venlo, NL
Grenswik
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June 28, 2025
Breda, NL
Mezz
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June 29, 2025
Hengelo, NL
Metropool
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July 5, 2025
Mannheim, D
Alte Feuerwache
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July 7, 2025
Luzern, CH
Schüür
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July 8, 2025
Ingolstadt, D
Westpark
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July 9, 2025
Lich, D
Kino Traumsstern
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July 26, 2025
Torres Vedras, PT
Bang
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BAND
  • 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
  • Diana Burkot
    Performer, composer, singer, musician: drums, keyboards. Political activist, participated in "punk prayer" action. Performs solo project called Rosemary Loves A Blackberry
  • Olga Borisova
    Editor of the Riot Days book, performer, singer. Political activist, ex-policewoman in Russia, quit her job to protest against the regime
  • 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
  • Max AWOTT
    Ex-member. Performer, composer, musician: drums, keyboards
  • Nastya AWOTT
    Ex-member. Performer, composer, singer, musician: saxophone
  • Kirill Masheka
    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
    VJ. Documentary filmmaker, visual artist
  • Dmitrii Kuminov
    VJ, sound engineer, visual artist, technical director. Political activist, participated in many Pussy Riot actions after 2012
  • Alexander Cheparukhin
    Producer of the show. Founder of GreenWave Music company. Artistic director of the number of international musical festivals
  • Yuriy Muravitsky
    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

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