Reality boxes
Playwright Tom Stoppard explained his approach to drama thus: He has a friend who keeps peacocks, in England, in a not particularly large yard, certainly not a stately home. And one morning when this friend was shaving he looked out the window and saw one fly over the fence. Now, they're valuable birds and on the other side of the fence was a main road, so he downed tools and went to catch his peacock. Picture him, at the side of the road waiting to cross back, in pyjamas, shaving foam on face, peacock under his arm. He knows how he got there. But to the guy behind the wheel, setting off for his am commute to the City, it is one bizarre sight. The little reality boxes in which the two of them live have collided. This, the collision of reality boxes, is what Stoppard likes to write about.
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