 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.Beginning with their walk “to the schools and back” in Wilde’s Act II, we begin to learn how these well-educated but impecunious individuals have survived on the lower rungs of Victorian society.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.