Texts by and about He Fa and P4 Theater: essays, Substack and period documents

A reading index: long essays on Shoot Self with You and imaging with you, the AGT method texts, P4 Theater’s English Substack, and the period calls, rehearsal notes and performance records for each work. Every link goes to the original.

Key essays

P4 Theater on Substack

The Camera Is an Address
2026-08-10 · A film-theory entry into P4 Theater's Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You.
P4 Theater: A Theater That Keeps Rewriting Itself
2026-07-20 · A Beijing-based experimental theatre and moving-image practice where rehearsal, performance, filming, writing, and public record reshape one
What Would Make P4 Theater One of China's Most Experimental Theaters?
2026-07-14 · A falsifiable case for P4 Theater as a structurally experimental practice—one that lets failure rewrite media, roles, archives, and power.
Don't Complete Me: From Evangelion to Human Surrender
2026-07-14 · Instrumentality, Intimacy, and the Ethics of Knowing When to Stop
After the Credits, Who Still Speaks for Them?
2026-07-14 · Shoot Self with You / Human Surrender: Proxy Speech, the Afterlife of Images, and the Right to Stop
Human Surrender Is Not About Surrender
2026-07-14 · Six essays on a film where language, intimacy, performance, and the camera stop belonging to one person.
The Camera Is Not a Window but an Address
2026-07-14 · Rethinking the Late Spectator in Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You, from Bazin to Schneider
How Human Surrender Points Back at Us
2026-07-14 · Reference, Self-Reference, Reflexivity, and Recursion in Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
Using the False to Pry Open the Real: P4 Theater as a Rehearsal of Reality
2026-07-14 · How fiction changes the conditions of action—and why only consequences that rewrite rules can make that change political.
A Film Without an Outside: The Referential Contract of Human Surrender
2026-07-14 · How address, watching, refusal, delegated speech, and the credits make reality inside Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You.
An Invitation to Build a Theater Public Toilet: Creator Recruitment for Rotating Staircase
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场和你, February 27, 2022.
Audience Criticism: Audience No. 15 on Iceberg
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场和你, January 6, 2022.
P4 Theater’s Fifth Public Play Cocoon Has Ended Successfully
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场, November 8, 2020.
Real Image Gallery: Hole
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场, June 28, 2020.
Cocoon Actor and Dancer Recruitment
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场, October 3, 2020.
How to Eat a Banana? p4X Workshop
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场和你, March 24, 2021.
What Is Real Image
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场和你, June 23, 2020.
North Wind Editorial: Tear Off My Name
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场和你, January 6, 2022.
North Wind Editorial: Address After Performing Iceberg
2026-06-01 · Original post from p4剧场和你, January 6, 2022.