Women of Pussy Riot Use Prison Experiences as Inspiration

The Associated Press

FILE – In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 file photo members of the Russian radical feminist group Pussy Riot give an interview to the Associated Press in a break during their rehearsal in Moscow, Russia. Five years after a Moscow court sent two members of the punk band Pussy Riot to prison, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are using their ordeals in prison as creative inspiration. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File) The Associated Press

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after they were convicted for an anti-Putin protest in a church, members of the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot are using their ordeals in prison as creative inspiration.

Maria Alekhina is touring with the play “Burning Doors” that recreates her traumatic experience behind bars. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is drawing on her prison experience to paint a bleak picture of the repression that she says America could experience in the near future.

Alekhina and Tolokonnikova recently spoke to The Associated Press about how they are turning their two years in a remote Russian prison into new artistic endeavors. Both hope their art will give voice to the millions of abused prisoners in Russia.

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