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Watsons, The

  • Laura Wade
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy
  • 10M, 9F
  • ISBN: 9781786826381

Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast.

If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osbourne, who's as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar. 

But there's a problem: Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?
REVIEWS:

"Playful, clever and inventive."

 The Arts Desk

"Wade has seized on [the] tension between authorial control and imaginative freedom to create a stunning play."

 The Guardian

Premiere Production: The Watsons had its world premiere performance at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, on 3 November 2018. It was transfered to the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, and had its first performance on 20 September 2019.

Characters

  • Casting: 10M, 9F

  • EMMA WATSON
    ELIZABETH WATSON
    MARGARET WATSON
    ROBERT WATSON
    MRS ROBERT
    MR WATSON
    NANNY
    TOM MUSGRAVE
    LORD OSBORNE
    LADY OSBORNE
    MISS OSBORNE
    MR HOWARD
    CHARLES HOWARD
    MRS EDWARDS
    MR EDWARDS
    OFFICERS OF THE MILITIA
    GUESTS AT AN ASSEMBLY
    LAURA

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    What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast.

    If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osbourne, who's as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar.

    But there's a problem: Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?

    		$24.95

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