"We were nervous about performing," Lai recalls, "because Mandarin isn't used all that much there, as you know, and we were afraid they wouldn't be interested in the subject, which switches back and forth across the Taiwan Strait." To their surprise, the audience was enthusiastic in the extreme.
賴聲川回憶：「那次演出本來令我們很緊張，因為你知道那裡華語並不鼎盛，又怕他們對劇中穿梭台海兩岸的題材不感興趣」，沒想到觀眾的反應熱烈極了。