What's more, the theater company had been putting on a bunch of new Peking operas that had already premiered on the mainland, such as Xu Jiujing Rises in the Ranks of Officialdom, Pan Jin-lian, and Images of the Crowds at the Temple. Putting on several of these recently created operas whetted their appetites to create new works for themselves. Ah Q is their first taste of such creation.
此外，復興劇團這幾年走新編京劇的路線，接連「照葫蘆畫瓢」地搬演大陸劇本如《徐九經升官記》、《潘金蓮》、《法門眾生相》等，幾次臨摹之後也昇起創作的慾望，《阿Ｑ正傳》便是他們的首度嘗試。