ALSO PLAYING

To Hell In A Handbag (Bewleys HHHHH) is a delight – beautifully written and acted with exquisite comic timing. It first surfaced in the Fringe Festival of 2016, and is due to go on national tour in September. The two characters are Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble, who make a vital late appearance in The Importance Of Being Earnest but are here given the stage to themselves. It’s book-ended by some voiceover dialogue from Earnest, and is written almost as a missing act that could fit neatly into the final part of the Oscar Wilde play. Written and performed by Helen Norton and Jonathan White, it’s a cleverly structured and intricate tale of duplicity and quiet manipulation by the two who are outwardly the essence of proper behaviour. Runs until July 22. Touring to Galway, Drogheda, Mayo, Dún Laoghaire, Ennis, Cork. Portlaoise, Longford, Rathfarnham from September 6 to October 11.

Emma Donoghue’s own adaptation of her life-affirming novel Room, about a young woman and her son held in captivity by a sexual predator, opens in The Abbey tomorrow.