National Institute of the Arts (NIA) professor Yao Yi-wei, who often tells students, "don't think you can bring the play offstage with you," could not help bemoaning when she saw legislators in the Legislative Yuan fighting and putting on a show for the media every day. "When you've got this type of living farce going on, who needs the drama on stage?"
常告誡學生「戲不要帶到台下去」的國立藝術學院教授姚一葦，看到立法院諸委員們天天打鬧作秀，不禁痛心地說：「當這種人生鬧劇在上演時，舞台上的戲也就不必演了。」