# A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love, 2021. P4U immersive theatre; associated writing. He Fa’s role: Author of the signed announcement “Who Are the Centrists?”. 2021 / P4U immersive theatre; associated writing Audience choices enter a debate about love; He Fa responds through a signed text. Poster announcing the 1 May 2021 performance; poster design credited to Gao Modi. He Fa’s role Author of the signed announcement “Who Are the Centrists?” Principal production credits Director Chen Yu; writer Hu Junyuan; producer Zhang Shaohua; artistic adviser Tan Tian Announced performance 1 May 2021, 19:30, P4 Theater ## Work record A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love, 2021. P4U immersive theatre; associated writing. He Fa’s role: Author of the signed announcement “Who Are the Centrists?”. Work / series A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love Date 2021 Medium P4U immersive theatre; associated writing He Fa’s role Author of the signed announcement “Who Are the Centrists?” Catalogue section Collaborative practice Cite this record: A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love · 2021 · Author of the signed announcement “Who Are the Centrists?” · [https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue) [2021-04-23 · Performance announcement: Who Is a Centrist? (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-04-23-p4U公演-谁是中间派-互动交互沉浸式戏剧-控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南-五月一日公演-9012683201/) [2021-04-23 · Production information and full credits (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-04-23-p4U-沉浸式戏剧-控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南-ee30ac33fb/) [Original WeChat article (Chinese)](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gb4-7XDn8sbae5sbWgfCGg) ## The production and He Fa’s writing This P4U production explores romantic desire, rational restraint and choices within relationships. Its public introduction gives contrasting positions to different characters and makes audience choices part of the story’s direction. Actors and audiences share the space, and watching includes interaction and decision. The contemporary credits identify the responsibilities of Chen Yu, Hu Junyuan, Zhang Shaohua and other collaborators. On the same day, He Fa published “Who Are the Centrists?”, using repetition, abrupt transitions and wordplay to create another narrative strand. His centrists wander, hesitate and wait to act; the closing passage returns the demand for a decision to the reader. Read beside the production introduction, the text shows how P4’s public writing participates in bringing a work into being: it communicates the schedule while establishing unsettled positions and emotions. ## Role within this archive This entry includes He Fa’s directly associated writing and preserves the production’s original credits. The poster, character dialogue and article together provide an entry into how the work was proposed within P4U’s framework of a single public performance. ## Moving image & related documents [2021-04-23 · Performance announcement: Who Is a Centrist? (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-04-23-p4U公演-谁是中间派-互动交互沉浸式戏剧-控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南-五月一日公演-9012683201/) [2021-04-23 · Production information and full credits (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-04-23-p4U-沉浸式戏剧-控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南-ee30ac33fb/) [Original WeChat article (Chinese) ↗](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gb4-7XDn8sbae5sbWgfCGg) ## Archive note He Fa’s confirmed role is the author of a signed article. Direction, writing and production follow the contemporary credits. The English title is a working translation for this archive. ## Continue exploring ### P4 Theater Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work. ### Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording Cameras and writers enter rehearsal, making documentation a form of participation that can affect the event. TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. Rules and choices How to act, who chooses [A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue) ↔ [How to Eat a Banana?](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/eat-a-banana) The banana workshop’s “how” invites a shared experience; the Centrist performance introduction places audience choices within the plot. One leaves the exercise method unspecified, while the other situates choice within a dramatic scenario. 2021 / P4U immersive theatre; associated writing 2021 / P4X workshop Read the source materials Period document [The voice of the invitation · 2021 ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/eat-a-banana#chapter-2) The original call of 24 March 2021 invites people to experience how to eat a banana together; it supplies neither complete exercises nor post-event results. Period document [The production and He Fa’s writing ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue#chapter-1) The project text and He Fa’s Who Is a Centrist? of 23 April 2021 ground audience choices, character speech and repetitive language; production credits remain distinct. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=eat-a-banana) Rules and choices ### How to act, who chooses [A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue) ↔ [How to Eat a Banana?](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/eat-a-banana) The banana workshop’s “how” invites a shared experience; the Centrist performance introduction places audience choices within the plot. One leaves the exercise method unspecified, while the other situates choice within a dramatic scenario. 2021 / P4U immersive theatre; associated writing 2021 / P4X workshop Period document [The voice of the invitation · 2021 ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/eat-a-banana#chapter-2) The original call of 24 March 2021 invites people to experience how to eat a banana together; it supplies neither complete exercises nor post-event results. The original call of 24 March 2021 invites people to experience how to eat a banana together; it supplies neither complete exercises nor post-event results. Period document [The production and He Fa’s writing ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue#chapter-1) The project text and He Fa’s Who Is a Centrist? of 23 April 2021 ground audience choices, character speech and repetitive language; production credits remain distinct. The project text and He Fa’s Who Is a Centrist? of 23 April 2021 ground audience choices, character speech and repetitive language; production credits remain distinct. Language in transit How a sentence changes a position [A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue) ↔ [Fafalish](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fafalish) He Fa’s Who Are the Centrists? uses repetition and wordplay to unsettle a position; Fafalish changes sentences through transcription and translation. Both intervene in meaning, but writing and conversion do not constitute the same mechanism of error. 2021 / P4U immersive theatre; associated writing 2017 / Language, video, printed text Read the source materials Period document [The production and He Fa’s writing ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue#chapter-1) The project text and He Fa’s Who Is a Centrist? of 23 April 2021 ground audience choices, character speech and repetitive language; production credits remain distinct. Period document [Chinese poem ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fafalish#chapter-3) The CCA exhibition statement supplies six transformations: Chinese poetry, literal English translation, accented reading, pinyin transcription, Chinese rewriting and machine translation into English. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=fafalish) Language in transit ### How a sentence changes a position [A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue) ↔ [Fafalish](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fafalish) He Fa’s Who Are the Centrists? uses repetition and wordplay to unsettle a position; Fafalish changes sentences through transcription and translation. Both intervene in meaning, but writing and conversion do not constitute the same mechanism of error. 2021 / P4U immersive theatre; associated writing 2017 / Language, video, printed text Period document [The production and He Fa’s writing ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue#chapter-1) The project text and He Fa’s Who Is a Centrist? of 23 April 2021 ground audience choices, character speech and repetitive language; production credits remain distinct. The project text and He Fa’s Who Is a Centrist? of 23 April 2021 ground audience choices, character speech and repetitive language; production credits remain distinct. Period document [Chinese poem ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fafalish#chapter-3) The CCA exhibition statement supplies six transformations: Chinese poetry, literal English translation, accented reading, pinyin transcription, Chinese rewriting and machine translation into English. The CCA exhibition statement supplies six transformations: Chinese poetry, literal English translation, accented reading, pinyin transcription, Chinese rewriting and machine translation into English. 2026-10-04 / ARCHIVAL ADDITION ## Source materials, process and versions Public graphics and source recordings retain their separate functions. Versions carrying personal contact information remain local rather than becoming public project records. 中间派abc.png · Web access copy from the preserved source [中间派abc.png ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-middle-party-love-rescue-6ec2f1ab705a) 中间派p4U.png · Web access copy from the preserved source [中间派p4U.png ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-middle-party-love-rescue-1e492d439bed) [MVI_4235.MOV ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-middle-party-love-rescue-88d1ddeeb5ca) [Follow the other material strands ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/reading/materials-and-process#middle-party-love-rescue) FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works ### Related records in the archive [P4 Theater ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-theatre) 2015–present [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) 2021