In the heyday of the discothèque, the hearts of Latino and African-American immigrants, whether they were whole or broken, shared a hopeful 70s glamour look. All of them died. This is a war. Miss Universe seeks refuge in Copacabana in a bunker that was once a disco during the time of fascism, where she finds gay ghosts.
Drawing from a real archive—her uncle Richard Wagner’s—which blends with fiction, Diego Bragà creates A Gente na boate sofre junto, a “hyperpopera” where the bunker becomes a ghostly and utopian disco, reinterpreting homoerotic themes from an androgynous and transfeminist perspective. A theatrical and operatic gesture that embraces suffering and opens the path for a new future.