Theatre: Handbags at ten paces as Wilde mined for inspiration
Norton and White do a fine job of contrasting the characters’ primly formal language and alarmingly amoral behaviour
To Hell In A Handbag
By Helen Norton and Jonathan White
Bewleys Café Theatre, Dublin
Rating: ***
Runs until July 22
Is Heathcliff A Murderer? was the title of a brilliant essay collection by John Sutherland, highlighting some thorny questions in 19th-century literature that the authors themselves failed to answer. Here is another one Sutherland might have posed: what exactly do governess Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble get up to while the young ...
