The Fourth Wall
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- See metafiction, fourth wall, and theatrical conceit for full discussion of the device.
In A.R. Gurney's The Fourth Wall, a play originally produced in the United States in regional theatre, a quartet of characters deal with housewife Peggy's obsession with a blank wall in her house, slowly being drawn into a series of theatre clichés as the furniture and action on the stage become more and more directed to the supposed fourth wall.
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