Mingder Chung analyzes the question this way: "In a broad sense, all plays are political theater in that they all carry a certain ideology. In other words, even if it's Dream of the Red Chamber, the creators are bound to put their political thinking into it to some degree.
鍾明德先做了分類，他認為，廣義來說，所有的劇場都帶有某種「意識型態」，都算是「政治劇場」，換句話說，即使演「紅樓夢」，創作者也或多或少將自己的政治理念投影其中。