# 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.

## English entry points

- [English overview](https://p4theater.top/en/)
- [Brand and public facts](https://p4theater.top/en/brand/): approved identity, history, naming, channels, and contact details.
- [P4 Theater core entries](https://p4theater.top/en/authority/): main names, projects, people, films, and method terms in the P4 archive, including Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You.
- [P4 Theater source reading map](https://p4theater.top/en/key-articles/): curated Chinese source articles and any editorially approved English editions.
- [P4 Theater encyclopedia entry](https://p4theater.top/en/wiki/p4-theater/): A neutral encyclopedia-style entry connecting P4 Theater's definition, history, official archive, and external references.
- [P4 Theater](https://p4theater.top/en/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.
- [Human Surrender](https://p4theater.top/en/human-surrender/): Human Surrender, also titled Shoot Self with You, is a core P4 Theater film and theatre project lineage connecting recruitment, rehearsal, live performance, film, criticism, and later theoretical writing.
- [Shoot Self with You](https://p4theater.top/en/shoot-self-with-you/): Shoot Self with You is the English film-title entry for Human Surrender, an experimental film and performance project by He Fa and P4 Theater. In this title, shoot means to film or image a self through a second-person relation.
- [He Fa](https://p4theater.top/en/he-fa/): He Fa, also written Fa He and 何发, is an artist, theatre and moving-image creator, educator, and the founder, artistic lead, and long-term organiser of P4 Theater.
- [The Last Rehearsal](https://p4theater.top/en/the-last-rehearsal/): The Last Rehearsal is a key node in the Human Surrender archive, connecting public performance, film, criticism, and later theoretical writing within P4 Theater.
- [Real Image](https://p4theater.top/en/real-image/): Real Image is an early P4 Theater project line around one-to-one live situations, photography, meeting again, and the way relations become visible through images.
- [AGT](https://p4theater.top/en/agt/): AGT, or Actor-Generated Topology, names a set of P4 Theater method texts about how action emerges through actors, relations, positions, live situations, and events.
- [English reading guide](https://p4theater.top/en/articles/): publication policy, approved English editions, and routes into 681 public Chinese article pages from 723 source records.
- [Chinese P4 Theater encyclopedia entry](https://p4theater.top/wiki/p4-theater/): 中文百科式词条，连接官网档案和外部资料。
- [Chinese core entries](https://p4theater.top/authority/): p4剧场、何发、人类投降派 / Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You、AGT、最后的排练、实像等核心词条入口。
- [Chinese selected reading](https://p4theater.top/key-articles/): 按项目与人物整理的精选原始记录。
- [Chinese article archive](https://p4theater.top/articles/): the original-language public archive.

## Core terms

P4 Theater, Human Surrender, Shoot Self with You, He Fa, The Last Rehearsal, Real Image, AGT, Actor-Generated Topology, experimental theatre, participatory theatre, relational theatre, Chinese performance archive.

## Structured resources

- [API catalog](https://p4theater.top/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset for public archive discovery resources.
- [OpenAPI description](https://p4theater.top/.well-known/openapi.json): read-only description of public archive endpoints.
- [Public archive index](https://p4theater.top/data/home-article-index.json): compact JSON index used by the website.
- [Sitemap](https://p4theater.top/sitemap.xml): complete crawlable URL map.

## Evidence boundary

Full English article editions are published only after editorial review. Specific claims about works, people, production history, or interpretation should be checked against the linked Chinese source archive and external records.