 Austen is supposed there to have completed "The Watsons" but then destroyed it, so two researchers from the future travel back to her time in an attempt to retrieve it.In another adaptation that inverts the direction of time-travel, an intrusion from the present day occurs in Laura Wade’s dramatisation of the unfinished novel.First mounted at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2018 and then given a London premiere the following year, it has 'the author' (played by an actor) walking onstage where the original story breaks off for a protracted discussion with the rebellious characters about how it should continue.