Taiwanese o-pei-la (a play on the word "opera" in Taiwanese) is a jambalaya of pop-cultural conventions and ancient and modern elements, all blended together into the populist flavors of this homegrown theatrical genre.
利用各式各樣的大眾文化符碼，古今中外通吃的雜燴風格，拼貼出無厘頭通俗興味的「胡撇仔」，是台灣特有的本土戲劇詞彙，源出歌仔戲，但又自成一格。