The world-renowned theatre scholar, Patrice Pavis, came to Taiwan to run a six-day workshop entitled ”Theoretical and Practical Questions of Staging New Chinese Plays” at Taipei National University of the Arts in late June, 2012. This article summarizes and reflects on the content, methodology, theories and practice of the workshop. Quite significantly, Pavis' workshop shared the same basis with Antoine Vitez' pedagogy of acting; both contend that interpretation of text only comes through exploration and creation. Their contention constitutes the fundamental spirit of this workshop.