# Romance Theatre Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre Romance Theatre, 2022. Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation. He Fa’s role: Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview. 2022 / Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation Shared exercises and lived encounters return through documentation to theatre. He Fa’s role Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview Original proposal text Liang Yin, 3 November 2022 Dated records Recruitment and meeting records in November 2022; retrospective interview published November 2023 ## Work record Romance Theatre, 2022. Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation. He Fa’s role: Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview. Work / series Romance Theatre Date 2022 Medium Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation He Fa’s role Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview Catalogue section Collaborative practice Cite this record: Romance Theatre · 2022 · Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview · [https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre) [2022-11-03 · Romance Theatre: Performer Recruitment (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2022/2022-11-03-演员招募-恋爱戏剧-对恋爱和戏剧的拨乱反正-79a568d749/) [2022-11-06 · Romance Theatre: the first meeting (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2022/2022-11-06-恋爱戏剧-缺爱缺男人的第一场见面会-98fb48e7a2/) [2023-11-28 · Interviews during the pandemic (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2023/2023-11-28-关于疫情期间的一些采访-df33ad335a/) [Original WeChat article (Chinese)](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bAc8AIODSyJEpHQeu_1nWA) ## From proposal to continuing practice In November 2022, Liang Yin published the call for Romance Theatre. The proposal asked participants to build relationships through group exercises, record lived encounters, derive a script from the recordings and eventually play themselves. A meeting article published on 6 November records the project’s initial gathering. Romance serves as a subject and brings participants into contact with their own and others’ expectations. In an interview published in 2023, He Fa explicitly states that he was working on this project and describes continuing workshops roughly two or three times a week. Attendance was not fixed. Pandemic restrictions in November 2022 prevented some participants from attending, while others returned after restrictions eased. His account places the proposal’s schedule within lived circumstances: continuing work depends on the ability to meet and on individual wishes and practical conditions. ## Proposal and archival reading The nine-day rhythm, proposed relationship development and filming plan belong to the original method. This page considers the movement between theatre and life that the proposal sets out. Its claims about perceptual capacities and relationship outcomes remain claims made in the proposal, rather than verified effects. ## Moving image & related documents [2022-11-03 · Romance Theatre: Performer Recruitment (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2022/2022-11-03-演员招募-恋爱戏剧-对恋爱和戏剧的拨乱反正-79a568d749/) [2022-11-06 · Romance Theatre: the first meeting (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2022/2022-11-06-恋爱戏剧-缺爱缺男人的第一场见面会-98fb48e7a2/) [2023-11-28 · Interviews during the pandemic (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2023/2023-11-28-关于疫情期间的一些采访-df33ad335a/) [Original WeChat article (Chinese) ↗](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bAc8AIODSyJEpHQeu_1nWA) ## Archive note Compiled from the listed P4 documents, with later recollections dated separately. Editorial description and source excerpts are distinguished. English translations were prepared for this archive. ## Continue exploring ### P4 Theater Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work. ### Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves A personal account by Lifeng calls others into a shared creative process. ### Personal Chronicle / PHA Begin with a personal account, propose a project publicly, and continue the archive through action. TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. Keeping and losing How a record becomes material again [Romance Theatre](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre) ↔ [Inside and Outside a Vehicle](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai) Inside and Outside a Vehicle reorders city fragments; Liang Yin’s Romance Theatre proposal feeds records of interactions back into a script. One changes photographic positions; the other must also face participants’ willingness to continue relating. 2022 / Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation 2009 / Photography, light box Read the source materials Work image [Images and presentation ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai#chapter-1) The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows. Period document [From proposal to continuing practice ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre#chapter-1) Liang Yin’s November 2022 call proposes recording relationships, developing a script from the recordings and performance by participants; He Fa’s later account is dated separately. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=chelichewai) Keeping and losing ### How a record becomes material again [Romance Theatre](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre) ↔ [Inside and Outside a Vehicle](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai) Inside and Outside a Vehicle reorders city fragments; Liang Yin’s Romance Theatre proposal feeds records of interactions back into a script. One changes photographic positions; the other must also face participants’ willingness to continue relating. 2022 / Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation 2009 / Photography, light box Work image [Images and presentation ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai#chapter-1) The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows. The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows. Period document [From proposal to continuing practice ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre#chapter-1) Liang Yin’s November 2022 call proposes recording relationships, developing a script from the recordings and performance by participants; He Fa’s later account is dated separately. Liang Yin’s November 2022 call proposes recording relationships, developing a script from the recordings and performance by participants; He Fa’s later account is dated separately. Body and presence Relations change a role’s position [Romance Theatre](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre) ↔ [Breaking the Moon](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/breaking-the-moon) Liang Yin’s Romance Theatre proposal feeds interaction records into a script; a Breaking the Moon rehearsal account turns an observer role into a participant in a relationship. Life and theatre rewrite one another without making real people identical to characters. 2022 / Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation 2023 / Theatre, rehearsal and production archive Read the source materials Period document [From proposal to continuing practice ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre#chapter-1) Liang Yin’s November 2022 call proposes recording relationships, developing a script from the recordings and performance by participants; He Fa’s later account is dated separately. Period document [The supervising producer within collaborative rehearsal ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/breaking-the-moon#chapter-2) An actor’s account of 7 December 2023 records an observer role becoming a participant through discussion, with He Fa contributing as supervisor; actor and character remain distinct. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=breaking-the-moon) Body and presence ### Relations change a role’s position [Romance Theatre](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre) ↔ [Breaking the Moon](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/breaking-the-moon) Liang Yin’s Romance Theatre proposal feeds interaction records into a script; a Breaking the Moon rehearsal account turns an observer role into a participant in a relationship. Life and theatre rewrite one another without making real people identical to characters. 2022 / Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation 2023 / Theatre, rehearsal and production archive Period document [From proposal to continuing practice ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/romance-theatre#chapter-1) Liang Yin’s November 2022 call proposes recording relationships, developing a script from the recordings and performance by participants; He Fa’s later account is dated separately. Liang Yin’s November 2022 call proposes recording relationships, developing a script from the recordings and performance by participants; He Fa’s later account is dated separately. Period document [The supervising producer within collaborative rehearsal ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/breaking-the-moon#chapter-2) An actor’s account of 7 December 2023 records an observer role becoming a participant through discussion, with He Fa contributing as supervisor; actor and character remain distinct. An actor’s account of 7 December 2023 records an observer role becoming a participant through discussion, with He Fa contributing as supervisor; actor and character remain distinct. 2026-10-04 / ARCHIVAL ADDITION ## Source materials, process and versions The graphic emblem, title layout and recording are connected without treating every nearby daily-life file as documentation of the same performance. 恋爱戏剧.png · Web access copy from the preserved source [恋爱戏剧.png ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-romance-theatre-57d20ffe2154) 恋爱戏剧 123_画板 1.png · Web access copy from the preserved source [恋爱戏剧 123_画板 1.png ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-romance-theatre-5bd2c1a63b3e) [恋爱戏剧.mpg ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-romance-theatre-033afc202653) [Follow the other material strands ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/reading/materials-and-process#romance-theatre) FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works ### Related records in the archive [P4 Theater ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-theatre) 2015–present [Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/becoming-wind) 2023 [Personal Chronicle / PHA ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/personal-chronicle) 2023