Purples / Purple Action
Roles, rules, speech and collective judgment become theatre within a jointly constructed fictional world.
Glossary
Action generated through relations: what it means
Also：关系中生成的行动 · 行动从关系中生成 · Action emerges through relations
AGT describes action as something produced among actors, positions, rules, spaces, and situations—not as the expression of one sovereign author.
Source：P4 Theater’s He Fa page (quoted)
See it on screen
Who Is Directing Whom? | A Rehearsal That Won’t ObeyVideo page · 6:45
The Camera Entered the Event | Shoot Self with You #ShortsYouTube · ShortRead further
Related video pages
《最后的排练》之前：谁决定下一幕？｜Before The Final Rehearsal: Who Decides Next? — Shoot Self with YouVideo page · 19:33
第一次排练：当表演开始失效｜First Rehearsal: When Performance Fails — Shoot Self with YouVideo page · 7:56
谁在完成这部电影？｜Who Is Making This Film? — Shoot Self with YouVideo page · 2:12
The Script Says Destruction. The Actors Find Tenderness. | P4 TheaterVideo page · 3:35
What Is P4 Theater? | An English Introduction to Beijing’s Experimental TheaterVideo page · 6:39
11 Performers Turn a Beijing Parking Garage Into a Stage | VORTEXVideo page · 1:05:23Where this idea appears: Purples / Purple Action (participatory theatre and role-play), Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club (interactive theatre and voting games), Final Solution (deliberation game), Vortex (collective creation).
Related topics：Participatory theatre · Independent theatre in Beijing
Keep exploring: related works
Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club
Six fighters and a four-hour countdown: votes held by the audience continually change the event.
Final Solution
Speech, judgment and voting become theatrical actions within a fictional end-of-world assembly.
Vortex
A month of rehearsals and changing participants forms the company’s second production.
Happiness Kingdom
Citizens emerge from discarded materials, and the characters made by participants continue to act and live.