"No one watches this kind of opera anymore," laments Huang Hsiu-man, an actress in her 60s who has been performing three-part tea-picking opera since she was a teenager. According to Huang, if you really want to put on a rousing performance you have to do grand opera because no one is interested in watching just three people on stage.
由於三腳採茶被認為難登大雅之堂，廟會酬神、拜拜多捨採茶而選擇亂彈、四平等大戲。「這種戲冇人要看啦」，十幾歲開始演戲，至今已六十幾歲的黃秀滿歌劇團團長黃秀滿指出，一般作醮請戲都要演大戲，誰要請只有三個人演出的小戲？