Serving up a fresh twist on Wilde’s timeless comedy of manners

To Hell in a Handbag

By Helen Norton and Jonathan White

Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin

Until September 7

Rating:***

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest provides the backdrop to Helen Norton and Jonathan White’s To Hell in a Handbag, which could easily be subtitled, as Wilde’s play was, “a trivial comedy for serious people”. While the main characters of Wilde’s drama are consumed by the conspiracy of Earnest’s parentage, Norton and White ...