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 transfeminist 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:
Composition, libretto, Direction and Choreography: Diego Bragà / Didirella
Performance : Didirella, Paulo Pascoal, Eric Meireles, João Villas-Boas 
Music Production: Diana XL et Pedro Joaquim Borges 
Sound Design: Nico Espinoza 
Assistant Director: Mariana Guarda  
Light Design: Rui Monteiro  
Light assistance and operation: Zeca Inglésias  
Set Design: ROD
Painting and Props: Martîm
Costume Design: Carlota Lagido 
Video (stage and teaser): Heverton Harieno 
Subtitling: Patrícia Azevedo da Silva 
Short Op-Docs/NYT : Diego Bragà
Choreographic Support: Tânia Carvalho
Choreography  “Sereinhos” : João Villas-Boas
Voodoo, Kuduro and Coupé Décalé Lab: Inés Sybille Vooduness 
Funk Lab: Kai Gomes 
Opera Consultation: Alexandra Lacroix 
Technical Direction: Ana Carocinho

Production:
Alkantara Lisbon - Lysandra Domingues, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by the European Union

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

Residency and support: 
TalentLAB / Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels), OPART, E.P.E. / Estúdios Victor Córdon, CAMPUS / Rivoli, Festival END and Teatro Oficina Writing Grant

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

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