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Maria AlYOKHINAAuthor of the Riot Days book, playwright, performer. Political activist and artist, spent two years in Russian prison for anti-Putin "punk prayer" action
Diana BurkotPerformer, composer, singer, musician: drums, keyboards. Political activist, participated in "punk prayer" action. Performs solo project called Rosemary Loves A Blackberry
Olga BorisovaEditor of the Riot Days book, performer, singer. Political activist, ex-policewoman in Russia, quit her job to protest against the regime
Alina PetrovaPerformer, 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 PletnerPerformer, singer, musician: flute. Graduate of Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop at the Moscow Art Theater School
Max AWOTTEx-member. Performer, composer, musician: drums, keyboards
Nastya AWOTTEx-member. Performer, composer, singer, musician: saxophone
Kirill MashekaEx-member. Performer, singer, assistant playwright and director. Ex-member of the Belarus Free Theatre
Anton PonomarevEx-member. Performer, musician: saxophone. Performs solo with free improvised music, noise, power-electronics, experimental and punk jazz
PoluoEx-member. Performer, musician: trumpet, drums
Vasily BogatovVJ. Documentary filmmaker, visual artist
Alexander CheparukhinProducer of the show. Founder of GreenWave Music company. Artistic director of the number of internatinal musical festivals
Yuriy MuravitskyDirector of the show. Chief director of the Taganka Theatre
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
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
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.
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.