Chang particularly connected with theater of the absurd, where ordinary people going about their daily lives behave weirdly, sometimes in an almost slapstick fashion. The plays took as central themes life's insipidness and emptiness and people's ignorance and boredom.
尤其是荒謬劇那種以小人物的怪裡怪氣，日常的無厘頭，反反覆覆講出生命的無趣、無常與空虛茫然，最是令張照堂喜歡。