At the height of the disco era, it wasn't just the most danceable songs that hit the charts. At the end of the party, sad songs played for the soon-to-be broken-hearted. “A gente na boate sofre” (We suffer in the nightclub) is a dramaturgical gesture and an expansion in the field of dance, originating from a pick-up note from the 70s – it is a utopian and ghostly space for solitary dance (physical/verbal/spiritual) of our ghost-archives and medium-memory that occupied the architecture of nightclubs at their peak, before the advent of AIDS. A verbose disco to embrace our suffering and update the idea of a beautiful – and shared – future ahead.

(Due to circumstances beyond the control of Teatro Oficina, the artistic residency and respective public presentation of "Na boate a gente sofre" (Creation Grant - Dramaturgy) by Diego Bragà will be postponed to March 2024, in the context of the 6th Edition of the New Dramaturgies Festival.)