I think my craving for more fic overrides any worries about that fic not sounding right (I've read all five existing stories on Ao3 multiple times and enjoyed them immensely), but I can understand why you might feel that way <3
Oh, fic, is a different thing! I can be like that with fanfic for books sometimes, but that's a whole other thing again, because of it being the same medium. :-) I, too, have read several of those several times since last year!
I haven't actually read or watched any other Rattigan plays - TWB was my first introduction to him! What would be the best one to sample next, in your opinion?
Ha, I really only know The Browning Version otherwise - but that is also very good, an intense one-act character piece, sort of an incredibly mundane, low-key tragedy that's invisible to the rest of the world. We did it for A-Level and I loved it so much that while I was interested in seeing more Rattigan, I was always a bit hesitant as to whether or not his other stuff would work in the same way for me. Of course, now I can officially say that this is clearly not the case, and I'm very excited about the BBC Collection hopefully winging its way to me soonish!
If you want to try TBV, I recommend the BBC 198(5?) one we watched back in the day, with Ian Holm, Judi Dench & Michael Kitchen, which is very sharp and good and faithful (as far as I can recall, but given the cast and the Beeb, that seems likely to be accurate). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be on YT currently. The 1994 film is supposed to not be that great, but I've never seen it myself. The 1951 film with Michael Redgrave is lovely and was adapted by Rattigan himself, but it has a more optimistic coda that the play doesn't have. Which, watching it years after the BBC one, felt like an amazing gift/little AU, but it depends which approach you feel is most likely to suit you for an introduction to it.
The one I linked to above, though, was also great fun - a much earlier work, and much lighter, but still with his eye to character detail, a fab cast, and as I said, not anything like as neat a resolution as you'd expect from a 1930s comedy of romantic errors (in the good way.)
Once I have my boxset, I will slowly become more informed! XD
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Oh, fic, is a different thing! I can be like that with fanfic for books sometimes, but that's a whole other thing again, because of it being the same medium. :-) I, too, have read several of those several times since last year!
I haven't actually read or watched any other Rattigan plays - TWB was my first introduction to him! What would be the best one to sample next, in your opinion?
Ha, I really only know The Browning Version otherwise - but that is also very good, an intense one-act character piece, sort of an incredibly mundane, low-key tragedy that's invisible to the rest of the world. We did it for A-Level and I loved it so much that while I was interested in seeing more Rattigan, I was always a bit hesitant as to whether or not his other stuff would work in the same way for me. Of course, now I can officially say that this is clearly not the case, and I'm very excited about the BBC Collection hopefully winging its way to me soonish!
If you want to try TBV, I recommend the BBC 198(5?) one we watched back in the day, with Ian Holm, Judi Dench & Michael Kitchen, which is very sharp and good and faithful (as far as I can recall, but given the cast and the Beeb, that seems likely to be accurate). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be on YT currently. The 1994 film is supposed to not be that great, but I've never seen it myself. The 1951 film with Michael Redgrave is lovely and was adapted by Rattigan himself, but it has a more optimistic coda that the play doesn't have. Which, watching it years after the BBC one, felt like an amazing gift/little AU, but it depends which approach you feel is most likely to suit you for an introduction to it.
The one I linked to above, though, was also great fun - a much earlier work, and much lighter, but still with his eye to character detail, a fab cast, and as I said, not anything like as neat a resolution as you'd expect from a 1930s comedy of romantic errors (in the good way.)
Once I have my boxset, I will slowly become more informed! XD