‘The Watsons’ - a play by Laura Wade
What can characters do when their author abandons them?
Nineteen and new in town, Emma Watson has been cast off by her rich aunt and banished back to the family home. Unless she can marry, and quickly, she faces a life of impoverished spinsterhood, dependent on her boorish brother and his ghastly wife.
Fortunately, a ball is being held in town, and she has plenty of suitors to dance with, from debonair but fickle Tom Musgrave to loaded but awkward Lord Osborne. Whose advances should she accept?
But that’s where Jane Austen put down her pen. Two centuries later Emma’s happy ending still hangs in the balance. Who will step in to finish the story?
Laura Wade’s inventive, sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: What happens when the writer loses the plot?
PERFORMANCES: Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 April 2026 at 7.45pm with a Saturday matinee at 3pm
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General Admission £18.00. (+ £0.80 fee)
Concessions: For senior citizens, under 18s, students and anyone on income support. £14.00. (+ £0.80 fee)
PTC Members For current members of Putney Theatre Company. £12.00. (+ £0.70 fee)