Pal frenak Fiuk

FIUK (The Hidden Men) - 2004

Three ropes to the sky, 4 men
Three plus one makes the quartet whole

This new show is the first part of a trilogy. The next production will deal with women and the last one will present men and women together.

Beyond being a beautiful work about the masculine body (why is it almost never shown the way female body is?)and the use of spaces and falls as tools of a choreographic expression, “Fiuk” is an immersion in the unconsciousness of men and boys. A research into the very foundations of the common inheritance that feeds the construction of man as a social animal.

By calling up alternately male chauvinist violence, stupid pretentiousness, the balance of power that structures our exchanges with others, both men and women, Pal Frenak, offers us a radical vision, somehow desperate, of human relationships.

He probes male sexuality through its different aspects, its origins as well as its unconscious sources and treats it without compromise or precious romanticism.

The result is sometimes very funny even if most of the time it is very dark comedy bordering on the aggressive. The slapstick humour underlines the ridiculous behaviour, the learnt routines and moves that form the compulsory section of human relationships.

Once again, Pal Frenak presents a show whose theatrical dimensions, almost cinematographic in conception, is the expression of his intuitive knowledge of human functions, a kind of direct access to the unconscious as well as a social vision without concession

Nevertheless, there remains hope for spiritual and elemental elevation. Once the physical and sexual themes have been ingested and then, digested, once the lesson of self knowledge has been learnt, then men can move forward, create their own vocabulary and move with more freedom.