For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do something nice for me, feel free to acknowledge me and let me know if you’ve used one of them (I’ll link to your creative work from my blog). If you don’t feel like it, no worries. If there’re a few comments with enthusiasm for an idea, I may write it up, so please comment if it sounds like something you’d like to read.
The idea behind this is the BBC sets up “boot camp” style school for actors preparing to perform in Regency dramas. They learn period appropriate accents, dances, behaviors, and whatnot. Perhaps they also get a wardrobe of appropriate period clothing made for them.
At this school, in their personal lives, the contemporary actors play out modernized scenes from various works by Jane Austen. For example, perhaps one actress is focused on her career and plays amateur matchmaker (a la Emma) with her fellow thespians, but ends up in a romantic entanglement of her own. These various threads progress along with their studies at the school.
I’ve not well versed enough with Jane Austen to write this myself, but I imagine it’d be a fun project for an author who was a fan.
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