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pussy riot
pussy riot
Bremen, DE
Theater Bremen
Oslo, NO
Parkteatret
Uppsala, SE
UKK
Gothenburg, SE
Pustervik
Malmö, SE
Moriska Paviljongen
Bristol, UK
Bristol Beacon (Lantern Hall)
London, UK
Nachtlicker XII, secret location
Canterbury, UK
Gulbenkian, University of Kent
Hamburg, DE
Uebel & Gefährlich, Nordwind Festival
Paris, FR
Petit Bain
Berlin, DE
Volksbühne
Konstanz, DE
Kulturladen
Milan, IT
Arci Bellezza
Bologna, IT
Locomotiv Club
Rome, IT
Largo Venue
Helsinki, FI
Korjaamo
Tampere, FI
G Livelab
Turku, FI
Logomo, Teatro
Nijmegen, NL
Doornroosje
Hannover, DE
Faust
Kassel, DE
Theaterstübchen
Bielefeld, DE
Forum
Prague, CZ
Palác Akropolis
Budapest, HU
House of Music Hungary
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Maria "Masha" ALYOKHINAActivist and author of Riot Days and Political Girl. Sentenced to two years in a penal colony for the anti-Putin Punk Prayer. Sentenced in absentia to 13 years in 2025. -
Alina RovComposer and sound artist, founder of the Kymatic ensemble, trained in Sonology in The Hague. Much of what you hear in Riot Days is hers. Sentenced in absentia to 8 years in 2025. -
Taso PletnerActor, theatre and documentary-theatre director, activist. Trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School under Dmitry Brusnikin. Sentenced in absentia to 11 years in 2025. -
Eric BreitenbachMember of Pussy Riot and co-founder of New Age Doom, the Vancouver experimental duo. Opens every night with a solo New Age Doom set before joining the show. -
Alexander CheparukhinProducer and festival director, founder of GreenWave Music and creator of Riot Days. Built the show together with Masha and opens every performance himself. -
Olga BorisovaEditor of the Riot Days book, performer, singer. Political activist, ex-policewoman in Russia, quit her job to protest against the regime -
Dmitrii KuminovVJ, sound engineer, visual artist, technical director. Political activist, participated in many Pussy Riot actions after 2012
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Diana BurkotPerformer, composer, singer, musician: drums, keyboards. Political activist, participated in "punk prayer" action. Performs solo project called Rosemary Loves A Blackberry -
Max AWOTTPerformer, composer, musician: drums, keyboards -
Nastya AWOTTPerformer, composer, singer, musician: saxophone -
Kirill MashekaPerformer, singer, assistant playwright and director. Ex-member of the Belarus Free Theatre -
Anton PonomarevPerformer, musician: saxophone. Performs solo with free improvised music, noise, power-electronics, experimental and punk jazz -
PoluoPerformer, musician: trumpet, drums -
Vasily BogatovVJ. Documentary filmmaker, visual artist
Riot Days is a show, not a concert: theatre, testimony and live music built from Maria Alyokhina’s books Riot Days and Political Girl, with documentary footage running through the whole performance. It tells a story of resistance, repression and revolution and keeps taking in what is happening in Russia and Ukraine, so no two nights are the same. Since 2016 it has toured more than forty countries and won the Herald Angel, Lustrum and Total Theatre awards.
«New primal revolutionary electronic punk opera»
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"It’s impossible to look away"
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
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"An anger in the air that is powerful and unmistakable"
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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"Its 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
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
We call for action against the horrible Putin's war in Ukraine. During this tour Pussy Riot raises money for the children’s hospital "Ohmatdyt" in Kyiv.
Help us to support the victims of Russian aggression.