To Hell in a Handbag: The Secret Lives of Canon Chasuble and Miss Prism is a 2016 play by the Irish actor/writers Helen Norton[1] and Jonathan White.
[3] Much as Tom Stoppard did with two of Hamlet's attendant lords in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the play To Hell in a Handbag explores its protagonists lives when they are not onstage in Wilde's original.
Continuing with their time offstage in Act III, we learn that far from being the models of propriety they appear in public, both have been forced to make ends meet in less than ethical and legal fashion.
The Irish Times said, "Helen Norton and Jonathan White, actors and writers, have pulled off a coup with their enchanting visit to the outer rim of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest" and that the play "packs extraordinary amounts of plot and top-notch gags into a compact package".
[4] The Sunday Independent described it as "wickedly, side-splittingly funny, in a sophisticated, witty and elegant way" and "a joyous romp not to be missed, a worthy homage to its master and progenitor".