Ruizendaal observes that the audience for traditional puppet theater in Taiwan has shriveled, and sees innovation as the way to win fans back again. Among other changes, he advocates shorter performances, faster-paced plots, fusion of traditional and Western music, and a switch to colloquial Taiwanese for soliloquies and dialogue.
根據羅斌的觀察，在台灣，傳統布袋戲的觀眾已嚴重流失，要想挽回戲迷的心，就必須「改良」，包括縮短演出時間、加快故事節奏、結合傳統與西洋樂曲，並且改用通俗的台語作口白。