More than a decade ago, their Xu Jiujing Rises in the Ranks of Officialdom, about the travails of an honest mandarin, created a stir on both sides of the strait. lt's one of the few operas where a clown role gets the lead. In The Great Transformation in Primordial Times, they strayed farther from the path of convention.
十多年前就轟動彼岸的《徐九經升官記》講清官難為，以丑生挑大樑是京劇少有的嘗試。