Diogo Freitas / Momento – Artistas Independentes

In a nation devastated by a civil war, a doubtful peace declaration that suggests putting democracy on hold for six months is signed, bringing two very different leaders to power. It is up to these rulers to escape such destinies as that of Troy, riding across a space swamped with inner and outer wraiths as they try their best and their worst to take the reins. Meanwhile, a familiar, silent enemy pierces them from their heels to their hearts as an arrow from the gods that knows no limits. Como perder um país [How to Lose a Country] is the second instalment of the series Democracia e os Filhos dos Anos 90 [Democracy and the Children from the 1990s] by Momento – Artistas Independentes. After Democracy Has Been Detected, which focused on the influence of artificial intelligence technology on democracy, this project looks at the potential of manipulation, power and populist rhetoric.


Diogo Freitas was born in 1996, in Famalicão. He started his training in Lisbon at Teatro da Trindade. He then joined ACE – School of Arts and later ESMAE – Higher School of Music and Performing Arts. As an actor he worked with Rogério de Carvalho, Ana Luena, Jorge Pinto, Pedro Galiza, Carlos Pimenta, João Garcia Miguel and Simão Pais. His first creation was Dilúvio, based on texts by Ricardo Neves-Neves, in 2019. He won the O Espaço do Tempo/“la Caixa” Foundation creativity grant in 2020 with the performance Como perder um País [How to Lose a Country]. He is the artistic director of Momento — Artistas Independentes.

Momento — Artistas Independentes is a production company created by Daniel Silva and Diogo Freitas that stems from the pluralistic approach of two young artists wishing to create an identity as thinking artists. Its first creation, O Grande Deus Pã [The Great God Pan], directed by Pedro Galiza, premiered at Casa das Artes de Famalicão. Diogo Freitas is its artistic director. It has worked on texts by Jacinto Lucas Pires, Fernando Pessoa and Filipe Gouveia, among others, and held presentations at Casa das Artes de Famalicão, Teatro Viriato and Teatro Diogo Bernardes. It has had the support of DGArtes for the last two years for the trilogy Democracia e os Filhos dos Anos 90 [Democracy and the Children of the 1990s].