For Lai himself, his plays are expressions of the high energy level of Taiwan in the 1980s, a time of social transition that provided endless material for creativity because of the clear clash between the old and the new.
對賴聲川而言，他的戲是八○年代台灣高度能量的展現，因為社會在轉型之際，新舊交替最為明顯，提供了無數的創作題材。