pussy riot
RIOT DAYS




pussy riot
RIOT DAYS











pussy riot
RIOT DAYS
CANADA
    March 4, 2024
    Kelowna, BC
    Revelry
    March 6, 2024
    Edmonton, AB
    Starlite Room
    March 7, 2024
    Calgary, AB
    Dickens
    March 8, 2024
    Saskatoon, SK
    Capitol
    March 10, 2024
    Winnipeg, MB
    Park Theatre
    March 22, 2024
    Vancouver, BC
    The Pearl on Granville
    EUROPE
      April 6, 2024
      Bern, CH
      Dachstock
      April 8, 2024
      Kassel, GER
      Theaterstübchen
      April 9, 2024
      Frankfurt, GER
      Mousonturm
      April 11, 2024
      Haarlem, NL
      Patronaat
      April 12, 2024
      Heerlen, NL
      Nieuwe Nor
      April 13, 2024
      Apeldoorn, NL
      Gigant
      April 14, 2024
      Antwerpen, BE
      Arenberg
      April 16, 2024
      Leeuwarden, NL
      De Harmonie
      April 17, 2024
      Dortmund, GER
      Domicil
      April 19, 2024
      Salzburg, AUS
      Jazzit
      May 4, 2024
      Luckenwalde, GER
      E-Werck “Tell Them I Said No” Festival
      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
        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
        VJ. Documentary filmmaker, visual artist
      • Alexander Cheparukhin
        Producer of the show. Founder of GreenWave Music company. Artistic director of the number of internatinal 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

          STAND WITH UKRAINE

          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.

          STAND WITH UKRAINE

          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.

          CONTACTS
          pussyriot@riotdays.com