We at the Nightclub Suffer Together
Diego Bragà

The 70s, the glamour of Rio's clubs under the dictatorship.
The shining of the misfits, the pre-Sida era, pleasure, dance and sensuality are redrawn every night. 
But war came and they all died. Miss Universe takes refuge in a bunker that was once a discotheque - at the height of fascism - in Copacabana...

An androgynous pop opera inspired by the life of Richard Wagner, Bragà's uncle, and the disco years under Brazil's dictatorship, We at the Nightclub Suffer Together blends real archive and fiction to reinterpret homoerotic themes in a utopian club, inhabited by ghosts, and celebrate a possible better future together.

Artistic team:
Director, libretto & composition: Diego Bragà 
Performers: Diego Bragà, cast to be announced
Musical direction and sound design: Nico Spinoza 
Music production: Pedro Joaquim Borges 
Hyper-Pop Electronics & Beats: Diana XL 
Choreographic support/movement dramaturgy: Tânia Carvalho 
Lighting design: Rui Monteiro

Production:
Alkantara Lisbon, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme financed by the European Union

Co-production:
afriCOLOGNE as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme financed by the European Union

With the support of: 
OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon and TalentLAB 2025

CReation grant: 
O Espaço do Tempo with the support of BPI and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation | 2024

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