It is the afternoon of September 25, and Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who is staying in Taiwan for three months for rehearsals for Snow in August, is running all the students of the Peking Opera department in the Fu Hsing Dramatic Arts Academy through rehearsals in the large lecture hall.
九月二十五日下午，為排練《八月雪》而準備長駐台灣三個月的諾貝爾文學獎得主高行健符，一襲黑色套頭衫，在復興劇校的國劇科大教室裡帶著全班人馬排戲。