P4 THEATER / PROJECTS
Explore P4 Theater through project introductions, credited participants, photographs and original records of theatre, moving image and collaborative practice.
28 detailed project records. Further projects, workshops and events are documented in the P4 ten-year archive · Search all articles
28 projects
Original record: 2016; republished in 2021
A theatre work structured through repeated dialogue, doubles and recognition. Its archive preserves the GIF-script record and premiere images.
An early P4 theatre work. The original names four contributors without assigning separate production roles.
Open project archive
From June 2019; focus on the 2019–2020 P4 collaboration
A one-to-one photography and theatre practice initiated by Zhang Shaohua and He Fa in June 2019. Photographs, repeated encounters and participants’ accounts form its archive.
Historical P4 collaboration, 2019–2020. A 2022 account records that the Real Image project remained with Zhang Shaohua after He Fa left the venue.
Open project archive
15 August 2020
Written and directed by 不折, Displace was performed at P4 on 15 August 2020. The poster, casting call and subsequent account form its record.
Produced by P4 Theater. Later reflections connect this experience to the formation of P4U and the 3P documentation group.
Open project archive
2020
A dance-theatre production directed by 黄伊尹 and choreographed by 郝杰, performed at P4 on 31 October 2020. Trained dancers and other participants worked together.
The fifth theatre production presented as produced by P4. Poster and announcement versions retain their respective dancer lists.
Open project archive
2020–2021
A P4U production initiated and written by 入梦 and directed by 金子, performed at P4 on 2 January 2021. The archive records the performers, technical team and documentarians.
Produced by P4 Theater; the 3P group documented the process. Production roles follow the dated announcements and interviews.
Open project archive
2021
An interactive musical initiated and directed by 刘子洛, performed at P4 on 12 June 2021. He Fa performed role C and participated in the 3P group.
The eighth P4U project. The production team and the 3P observation and documentation group retain separate credits.
Open project archive
2021–
A collaborative practice using role play, discussion and social situations. Its archive separates project documents, rules, proposals, posters and event records.
Co-initiated by Shen Bolun, He Fa and Shao Yifan, with a documented connection to P4X. Final Solution, Duel Club and online events retain their own contexts.
Open project archive2021–2022
Iceberg premiered on New Year’s Day 2022. The records include calls, announcements, participant accounts and audience criticism.
Beifeng Theatre’s first production. The premiere and the Hangzhou 2.0 call are separate phases.
Open project archive
12 March 2022
Developed collectively over one month and performed on 12 March 2022. The announcement names eleven participating members.
The second production by Beifeng Theatre. P4 preserves the performance announcement and members’ writing.
Open project archive
Recruitment: February 2022; performance announced for 9 April 2022
An issue-based play about family ties, separation, material conditions and happiness. Recruitment began in February 2022, followed by an announced 9 April performance. A later notice moved the planned venue from Chongwenmen to 参SPACE at Langyuan.
A 戏剧公厕 project supported by P4 Theater and 北风戏革. The performance notice credits P4 for production support and names 姜海柱 as director, writer and performer.
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First performance announced for 27 August 2022
A theatre work developed through extended rehearsal and discussion around a closed-off boy and a girl of unknown origin. The August 2022 announcement names 黄蒙, 入梦, 曲文豪 and 何发 as co-presenters, with performers’ reflections and audience criticism preserving other aspects of the process.
A collaborative work associated with 北风剧社, documented within the wider P4 practice. The first-performance notice names four co-presenters; the institution should not replace their credits.
Open project archive
26 November 2022
A two-part solo performance created, arranged and performed by 姜海柱. P4 preserves records of the Wangjing, Beijing presentation on 26 November 2022.
The work belongs to 姜海柱’s practice. He Fa provided the venue and publicity support; this does not assign him the play’s direction.
Open project archive
November 2022
A participatory process built around shared games, encounters and participants’ experiences. Calls and activity records are kept distinct.
A participatory theatre project documented through P4 calls and activities. The listed roles are limited to the announcement of 12 November 2022.
Open project archive2023: call for collaborators and first meetings
An invitation to collaborative theatre beginning with 立风’s personal text 如麻. It called for shared writing, directing, rehearsal, design, production and documentation. Later texts describe the first meeting of applicants and confirm 徐帅’s participation.
A theatre initiative launched by 立风 (张蕾) through P4’s recruitment and collaborative network. The sources establish its initiation and early process, rather than assigning all authorship to P4 or confirming a completed public production.
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2023: recruitment, character texts and discussion announcement
A four-act experimental play exploring love, hatred, reality and illusion. February 2023 recruitment was followed by character texts and an announced discussion event on 16 April. These texts document a creative process rather than performers’ private lives.
A participant-initiated project circulated through the P4/510 network. P4’s retrospective places its recruitment and discussion event among plays initiated by participants.
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26 August 2023
A performance combining theatre, live sound, documentation and filmmaking on 26 August 2023. Credits retain each person’s role at this event.
The public performance before the completion of filming for Shoot Self with You, held at Ciyu Bookstore’s Inside-Out Theatre branch.
Open project archive
2023–2024
A film developed through rehearsals, shared living, filming and public performance. He Fa is the director; the crew collectively created the direction and screenplay.
The project retains individual production credits and the crew’s collective authorship. Event lists, production recollections and final film credits are separate records.
Open project archiveRecruitment in March 2021; performance announced for 1 May 2021
An interactive, immersive P4U theatre project organised around positions on love and audience action.
A P4U project recruited through P4 Theater, with P4 named as the announced performance venue. The programme’s identity does not replace individual credits.
Open project archive
Recruitment, rehearsal and activity records in 2022; participant biographies in 2023
A Kousi Theatre co-creation project initiated by Zhao Xuan. Calls, a manifesto, participant texts and 25 rehearsal and activity uploads trace the process from script reading into public space.
A Kousi Theatre project whose calls, performance notices and participant records are preserved by P4. Archival circulation does not make it an exclusively P4-produced work.
Open project archiveRecords published in 2023
A P4 screening programme initiated by 恽剑辉. A 2023 announcement presents a private screening and discussion of his documentary 《重寻指南针》.
A retrospective identifies 恽剑辉 as the initiator of P4’s programme. The 25 February 2023 article announces a 4 March screening in Wangjing, Beijing, with the documentary’s director. The record concerns exhibition and discussion; it does not establish P4 as the film’s producer.
Open project archiveRecords published in 2023–2024
An open, continuing writing programme initiated by 孙甲瑞. P4’s archive preserves submissions and fictional texts developed through successive contributions.
A 2023 retrospective names 孙甲瑞 as the initiator of P4’s programme. The 2024 article 《周游之歌》 describes an open platform for continuing stories through successive contributions. Programme initiation does not establish authorship of every submitted text.
Open project archivePerformance announced for 2 September 2016
An announcement for a sound, moving-image and media performance on 2 September 2016, listing P4 as the venue and four artists.
The 31 August 2016 article announces the thirteenth Pixel Echo performance at P4 Theater, Diaosutai, Beijing, for 19:30 on 2 September. It lists four artists; two names have different spellings in the lineup and biographies.
Open project archiveEarly project; archive records published in 2021
A GIF-theatre record of an early P4 work. Articles published in 2021 preserve its text and images, while individual production credits remain unverified.
The 2021 GIF-theatre article preserves the work’s text and images. A December 2021 retrospective lists it among theatre works incubated at P4. The reviewed articles do not establish individual production roles.
Open project archiveCancellation and relocation notices published in 2022
Two Hangzhou notices document a cancelled Tianmuli plan and a proposed move to a public lawn, preserving the revised programme and announced performers.
The 26 April article proposes Falling into Alice Lake at Tianmuli, Hangzhou, on 4 May. The 3 May notice explicitly cancels that plan and announces a move to the lawn at Qianjiang Century Park. Six names appear in the revised announcement’s performer list.
Open project archiveProgramme and method records published in 2020
P4U brings people from different backgrounds into shared creation through open recruitment. Its method assigns observation and documentation to the 3P group.
Two articles published in 2020 describe P4U as a method of recruitment, shared creation, observation and feedback. P4 supports initiators’ creative projects while the 3P group documents and observes. The programme can encompass multiple initiators and projects; it is not a single play.
Open project archiveActivity records from April to July 2023; a participant retrospective in November 2023
A continuing collaborative project involving puppets, bodies, characters and immersive games.
P4 preserves its collaborative calls, games and participatory activities. Facilitators and participants retain their event-specific credits.
Open project archiveRecruitment and rehearsal records in March 2022; an event announced for 1 April 2022
An interactive theatre initiative by Beifeng Theatre, documented through mobile rehearsals and an April Fools’ Day performance announcement.
Initiated by 北风剧社 and explicitly presented as a Beifeng production. P4 preserves its calls and notices without replacing the producing group’s credit.
Open project archiveRecords from November to December 2023; performance announced for 16 December 2023
A theatre project by the 破月 group exploring love, jealousy and relationships, with two dated production lists preserved.
A theatre project of the 破月 group. The notices name 321空间 and Beijing P4 Theater as cooperating venues, 徐帅 as director, 李亚鑫 as writer and He Fa as supervising producer.
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