In traveling opera companies, the director usually assigns parts in the afternoon, soon before curtain up. Other girls, terrified of being cast at the last moment in a role which required memorizing lots of dialogue and lyrics, tried to avoid being spotted by the director. But Sun was different.
通常野台戲下午開演前，導演會先分配角色，許多初學戲的女孩子，都很怕被臨時派到角色，因為要在短短的時間內記住一個角色的對白，還要編出合韻腳的歌詞並不容易，有人還會藉故躲起來。