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 Osborne, 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?
