Ever since the announcement in April of 2002 of plans to stage Snow in August-written and directed by Gao Xingjian, the first person of Chinese ancestry to win the Nobel Prize in literature-international theater promoters have been giving the project a great deal of attention.
由諾貝爾文學獎第一位華裔得主高行健創作編導，在台灣進行「二度」創作的《八月雪》，從今年四月宣布搬上舞台，即引起國際表演藝術策展人的高度矚目。