Enter Meat Grinder through its forms of participation
The 2022 Meat Grinder call offers entry as a performer or observer. It invites readers into a particular working process: some people enter performance, others participate through observation, and later calls continue to open the project to contributors. Participation takes shape through relationships between those positions.
Zhao Xuan initiated Kousi Theatre’s Meat Grinder. The biographies published with The Last Rehearsal in 2023 also record his co-creation in P4’s Romance Theatre and musical work in The Last Rehearsal. These materials connect projects through one person while preserving their distinct organisational and artistic credits.
Related sources: Recruitment - Here's the meat grinder. · Recruit. - I hanged my hair. · P4 Finale: The Last Rehearsal, Love, Death, and Human Surrender
Connect biographies with the rehearsal catalogue
Continue by placing the biographies beside Fourth Log’s Meat Grinder catalogue. Its titles identify script reading, auditions, street improvisation and full rehearsals, offering further viewing routes into actions within the process. Recording dates and upload dates remain separate.
The relationship between Kousi Theatre and P4 becomes specific through people, spaces, records and projects. An audience can follow one person’s work towards a collective, then follow a rehearsal towards a later presentation or collaboration, giving concrete shape to the idea of co-creation.
Related sources: Recruitment - Here's the meat grinder. · P4 Finale: The Last Rehearsal, Love, Death, and Human Surrender
Related projects and records
Questions about these records
Who initiated Meat Grinder?
The published biography identifies Zhao Xuan as initiator of Kousi Theatre’s Meat Grinder.
What other P4 connections are recorded for Zhao Xuan?
His biography records co-creation in Romance Theatre and musical work in The Last Rehearsal.
Sources and original records
Recruitment - Here's the meat grinder.
Chinese original · English edition
Start with the participation roles in the Meat Grinder call.
Recruit. - I hanged my hair.
Chinese original · English edition
Compare a later call and the invitation it makes.
P4 Finale: The Last Rehearsal, Love, Death, and Human Surrender
Chinese original · English edition
Follow biographies, including Zhao Xuan’s, across projects.