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Plays:

Alyokhina, Maria. 2017. Burning Doors. Not published.

Boitcova, Vera. 2022. Neptune. Not published.

____________. 2020. Today My Cat Died. Not published.

Bissett, Cora. 2018. What Girls Are Made Of. London: Oberon.

Butcher, Jessica. 2018. Sparks. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Grinstein, Nina. 2018. Come Out of the Closet. Not published.

Hammond, Barbra. 2020. We Are Pussy Riot. Dramatists Play Service.

Kolyada, Nikolai. 1989. Slingshot. In Kolyada’s play collection. Moscow: Kalan.

Shilyaeva, Olga. 2018. 28 Days. Not published.

tester98. 2020. Darkroom. Not published.

Van Druten, John. 1971. I Am a Camera. New York: Praeger.

Waller-Bridge, Phoebe. 2016. Fleabag. London: Nick Hern Books.

Performances:

Abramović, Marina. 1975. Art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful, video, recorded at Charlottenburg Art Festival in Copenhagen.

_______. 2010. The Artists Is Present, exhibition at MOMA, New York.

Boitcova, Vera. 2015. Objectify Me, performance, London.

________. 2015. Unicorns, and Other Animals That Don’t Exist, performance, London.

Duckie. 2015. Border Force, show, London and Brighton.

Eve’s Ribs. 2019. Give Birth To Meat, performance, St-Petersburg.

________. 2019. Vulva Ballet, performance, St-Petersburg.

________. 2020. Crossing the River in Coffins and She-wolf Mother Russia, performance, St-Petersburg.

________. 2020. Kremlin Take-Over, performance, Moscow.

Pussy Riot. 2012. A Punk Prayer, performance, Moscow.

Voina. 2008. Fuck for the heir Puppy Bear!, performance at the Timiryazev State Biological Museum, Moscow.

_______. 2011. Dick Captured by the FSB, drawing of a penis on a drawbridge, St-Petersburg.

_______. 2011. Operation: Kiss Garbage, performance in various public areas, Moscow.

_______. 2011. Cops Auto-da-fe, or Fucking Prometheus, performance, St-Petersburg.

Films:

Fosse, Bob, director. 1972. Cabaret. ABC Pitcures.

Haynes, Todd, director. 2015. Carol. Number 9 films.

Total Refusal. 2018. Operation Jane Walk.

NEPTUNE Working Group:

Playwright: Vera Boitcova (Master’s Degree Programme in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research, artistic thesis for a Master of Arts)

Directing: Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Master’s Degree Programme in Directing, artistic thesis project for a Master of Arts)

Costume design: Jenni Sarkkinen (Kaakkois-Suomen ammattikorkeakoulu)

Sound design & music coordination: Juri Jänis (BA Sound design)

Scenography: Magnús Sigurðarson (professional – guest)

Lighting design: Mari Agge (professional – guest)

Make-up design: Roosa Leino & Anu Reijonen (Stadin ammatti- ja aikuisopisto)

Choreography consultant: Corinne Mustonen (MA Swedish Acting)

Director’s Assistant: Homi Shokra (MA Directing)

Performers: Edit Williams (BA Swedish acting), Linnea Sundblom (MA swedish acting), Senja Rajalin (BA Dramaturgy and playwriting), Susanna Hyvärinen (MA Finnish acting, artistic thesis project for a Master of Arts), Yoandy Jimeno (guest, Laajasalon opisto), Vera Boitcova (MA CDPR)