However, as fate would have it, Kung Min and Ko Chi-liang shortly thereafter left their original positions, and plans for a production of Snow in August came to a standstill, a situation which lasted until 2000, when Gao Xingjian was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
然而，或許因緣未到，貢敏與柯基良不久即離開原職，《八月雪》的演出計畫就此擱置。直到高行健獲得二○○○年諾貝爾文學獎，轟動整個華人世界，他的著作也立刻水漲船高起來。