What is P4 Theater?
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre founded in Beijing. Through performance, photography, moving image, and writing, it creates live situations people can enter—and preserves the relations that unfold as a public archive.
Space, projects, and an ongoing live practice
Entrances, posters, and performance images preserve a continuous visual history of P4 Theater's changing practice.
At a glance
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre and a public archive of how its works take place.
P4 Theater's history is made through works, spaces, writing, recruitment, and shared practice; each essay preserves one concrete moment in that history.
Practice since 2015
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Short definition
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre and a public archive of how its works take place.
How the theatre began
P4 Theater was founded in Beijing by He Fa in 2015 and opened publicly at the Beijing Sculpture Platform in 2016. Its early space and projects were developed with collaborators whose credits remain in the source archive.
How it works
P4 uses performance, photography, moving image, and writing to organise concrete live situations. Calls, rehearsals, performances, and reflections preserve evidence of how each work took place.
Frequently asked questions
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre founded in Beijing, working across performance, photography, moving image, and writing.
No. P4 once occupied a specific theatre space, but its works have also taken place in offices, boxing gyms, bookshops, and temporary public rooms.
The archive preserves calls, rehearsals, performances, disputes, and reflections so that readers can verify how the work developed.