"Overseas, little theaters have always occupied a fairly well-defined position, as indicated by some of their most salient characteristics: experimental, avant-garde, anti-mainstream, noncommercial, anti-estab- lishment, and imbued with a strong outsider feeling," says Mingder Chung, who currently teaches at the National Institute of the Arts.
「小劇場在國外一向有相當明確的定位，可以由它所具有的幾個特性標示出來：實驗性、前衛、反主流、反商業、反統治，具有強烈的『在野』性格… …」，目前任教國立藝術學院的鍾明德也指出。