The play is staged in Mandarin, but its reliance on simple, every-day Taipei vernacular should be of particular interest for students of Chinese. Meaningful communication doesn't come easy in No Comment. People always have a lot to say, and they say it fast. Everyone has a cellphone. And they speak all the time.
Vacuous speech is used in No Comment to bring out the play's central theme of anxiety.
Although people may be speaking utter nonsense, their words are not without meaning. There is a sense of anxiety in that kind of speech, a sense of crisis about the future. In contrast to Chi's previous works, in which the stories develops along a single plotline, No Comment engages three story lines and 10 different episodes. A second plot follows a family, which, since surviving a devastating earthquake, has become wholly dysfunctional, with the family members communicating at home via cellphone. The third part of the play is a series of unrelated scenes that look at different sets of social relationships, such as taxi drivers and their customers, boyfriends and girlfriends, actors and stage managers.