The title refers to Huxley's dark anti-utopia, but also to Shakespeare, from whom he took this title. And there is even a storm and an island here - except that for Shakespeare's heroes the promise of happiness is the world of the civilised land, here it is the other way round: the remedy and the achievement of dreams of a better future is to come from the wild. The text is not devoid of humour, although it is difficult to classify it as a comedy drama. The author employs the metaphor and poetics of a surrealistic dream. Initially, the dreams are only dreams, with time the oniric reality will dominate the realistic action. The play is full of meaning on several levels.
In the description of the dramatis personae, the author outlines the initial situation: "Marriage. He, A, past forty, she, B, still before. Experienced in life. A is a prominent man, he holds an important clerical position, but he is deadly bored. He devotes every free moment to working on his life's work, which he calls "The Book", in his opinion a synthesis of literature, philosophy and religion. B is fully devoted to her husband. She suffers, disappointed by A, but patiently abides by him and cherishes him, fulfilling all his desires. Both of them live for their dreams - A dreams about the immortality that his work is supposed to provide him with and B about familial happiness and a sense of security at the side of her beloved man."
And, although he dislikes guns and prides himself on his pacifism, works in a company that benefits from the war the country is currently waging. "Oh, yes! I'm in the back! And I'm very good at it!" He doesn't protest because "if not them, then us." Comfortable, fearful, withdrawn, clumsy, erotomaniac raconteur, compensating for his complexes by constantly verbalizing his desire for sex. He wouldn't want anything, God forbid, to change, he's clinging to his wife, his job, his piece of land. B is the opposite. Exposing mercilessly his weaknesses, she would finally want something unpredictable to happen, she would want a "New World". B: "Have you noticed how much mud is there?", A: "This mud is our homeland". It is not known whether, even though the word appears on his lips, they are still united by love, or just a sick attachment, a feeling that they are condemned to be with each other. He, needing her care, she... needing to be needed? And maybe, like Beckett's couples, they would have stayed in such a harmonious duo forever, drawing the meaning(lessness) of the day from tormenting each other and reproaching each other if they hadn't decided to give themselves a chance by going on a journey.