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A Handbag

A Handbag by Anthony Horowitz

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£7.50

Quick Overview

An incredibly funny play written specifically for young people. It focuses on a group of six youngsters, all patients in an institution who are trying to rehearse the handbag scene from Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Throughout their rehearsal squabbles and tensions develop and it becomes clear that all of these young characters have many dark and underlying problems.


M4 F2. A room in an institution. Acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and playwright Anthony Horowitz was commissioned to write a play as part of the National Theatre's "New Connections" programme for young people and the result is a short play which is both funny and poignant for a cast of six. A group of young people are rehearsing 'The Importance of Being Earnest' but, as they attempt to perform a play which is alien to them, it becomes apparent that their surroundings are not normal. Gradually, as tensions mount, squabbles ensue and each young person's story starts to emerge, the location is found to be an institution - reinforced by the final grim, chilling echoes of doors slamming and being locked.