After he'd beavered away for a year, Wu Hsing-kuo eventually described his script as "too like a prose drama," and a small core group ended up having to knock it into shape line by line.
至於編劇，負責執筆的李慧敏那時只是個愛看戲的大學生，唱腔形式都不懂，琢磨了一年，幾欲放棄，寫出的劇本，據吳興國形容是「像個話劇」。於是幾個核心分子輪流家中坐，逐句逐場的修改。