THE WATSONS at Little Theatre

A Jane Austen play you don’t know the ending to? That’s all right, neither did she.

THE WATSONS

Written by Laura Wade
Directed by Matthew Chapman
1 - 10 August 2025
Little Theatre
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The Watsons are in crisis. Cut off financially from her benefactor, the youngest, Emma, returns to her dying father and spinster sisters with the task of finding a husband - and finding one now.  Matchmakers, match breakers, cads, stuffy clergymen and an overactive rumour mill all conspire as wedding bells ring in the distance and Emma eyes off a certain man…

…and that’s where we leave it.  See, Jane Austen never finished the story.  So it’s up to Emma, with the help of modern-day Laura, a jaded playwright with a rapidly approaching deadline, to find her own happy ending…
 

And that’s where the fun really begins.

Authors

• Laura Wade