At a Chinese New Year's day gathering of actors and theater-going university students at Wu Hsing-kuo's home in 1984, all the talk was of the decline of Peking opera, problems with military drama troupes and the fall-off in younger audiences.
那是民國七十三年大年初一，一群國劇演員和愛看戲的大學生在吳興國家過年，席間談起國劇的式微、軍中劇團的問題及年輕觀眾的遠離。