By 2016 / Immersive theatre, drama and games

Theatre Murder Case

An immersive experience created by FakingAosome at P4 Theater, combining drama and games.

Team introduction page of the 2016 CAFAM proposal, naming FakingAosome’s founders and four projects — Proposal for the Third CAFAM Biennale, p. 1. The final page is signed He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang, 5 September 2016.

Co-creators: He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
Place: P4 Theater, Beijing
Date basis: Listed as a work in the proposal of 5 September 2016

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Drama and games at P4 Theater

Theatre Murder Case appears in the team’s project list in a 2016 proposal jointly signed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang. The source states that it was created at P4 Theater as “an immersive theatrical experience combining drama and games.”

The collaborative archive

The same page lists Hamlet’s Mirror, The Invisible Odyssey and the Sangou GIF Theatre as FakingAosome projects. Although the surviving description of Theatre Murder Case is brief, it identifies a place of creation, a collaborating group and an approach combining theatre with games.

Scope of the surviving material

The verifiable record is the project listing in the 2016 proposal. The page does not provide a premiere date, script, duration or full production credits. This entry preserves the documented project as a point of access for comparison with further performance materials.

Archive note

Prepared from original documents retained by the artist. English text is a translation for this site.

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2015↗

Hamlet’s Mirror

Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments.

Selected works

2015–present↗

P4 Theater

Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work.

Collaborative practice

A repeated pattern of blue line figures on white

Listed in a 2016 proposal; public images and texts in 2022↗

Sangou GIF Theatre

A virtual character builds a theatre through repetition, transformation and brief pieces of language.

Selected works

Work record

Theatre Murder Case, By 2016. Immersive theatre, drama and games. He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome.

Work / series: Theatre Murder Case
Date: By 2016
Medium: Immersive theatre, drama and games
He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
Catalogue section: Collaborative practice

Cite this record: Theatre Murder Case · By 2016 · Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/theatre-murder-case

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Working together
How shared making is credited
Theatre Murder Case Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
Theatre Murder Case combines drama and games under the name FakingAosome; Human Surrender credits its crew with collectively creating the direction and screenplay. Both organize practice involving multiple people, while the duo and the film crew define different scopes of authorship.
By 2016 / Immersive theatre, drama and games
2023–2024 / Film, rehearsal, live performance
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1. Period documentDrama and games at P4 Theater ↗
  The 2016 proposal jointly signed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang lists the work under FakingAosome and explicitly combines theatre and games at P4; detailed documentation is limited.
2. Event recordCollective credits in the film ↗
  At 02:34:12 the film credits directly attribute direction and screenplay to collective work by the cast and crew; the scope follows the original credit wording.
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Rules and choices
How games enter theatre
Theatre Murder Case Final Solution
A contemporary document describes Theatre Murder Case as combining drama and games; Final Solution preserves questioning, voting and revisions to its rules. Both bring games into theatre, but the surviving material supports different levels of detailed reading.
By 2016 / Immersive theatre, drama and games
2021 / Participatory theatre, a deliberation game and process documentation
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1. Period documentDrama and games at P4 Theater ↗
  The 2016 proposal jointly signed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang lists the work under FakingAosome and explicitly combines theatre and games at P4; detailed documentation is limited.
2. Period documentGiving the assembly the decision ↗
  The May 2021 call and He Fa’s July account document questioning, voting, character departure and transcription with reflection; version differences remain explicit.
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