Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring, for example, is built on a mixture of ancient and modern, of comedy and tragedy, which Stan Lai has always been interested in. His doctoral dissertation was on Greek theater and Japanese Noh drama.
拿「喑戀桃花源」作例子，這一古一今，一悲一喜，同台交錯的結構是賴聲川的原始構想。他對於悲喜冶於一爐的呈現方式一直很感興趣，博士論文便拿希臘悲劇和日本能劇作研究。