The Three Brothers is a production by Portuguese contemporary dance company My Own Name (Nome Próprio). Created by Victor Hugo Pontes, the company’s prolific artistic director, the piece is based on a play by Gonçalo M. Tavares. It highlights the unison of visual composition and textual narration, as it explores the love and the struggles between three siblings.

Between reckonings of fortune and misfortune, every creator, performer, even every spectator, has their own defying logic and causality views on family. In light of this, the choreographer provided keywords that might be directly or indirectly related with the theme and the creation of the text. The result is a dramatic narrative full of twists and turns that breaks free from linearity. Through fragmented dialogues, touching on the protagonists’ daily lives, childhood memories and conversations with their parents, the work untangles intertwined emotions of love and hate.

By Loui Yuen
Yuen received her master’s degree at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has produced and coordinated programmes for various arts organizations and theatres in Hong Kong. Yuen is also the co-founder of nobodies’ theatre and a member of the Table To-gather 2023-25 project of the On & On Theatre Workshop.

This article is summarised and translated from Chinese.