The Go-Between BBC Radio 3 on 26 May 2013. In 1991, South African composer David Earl adapted the novel as a two-act opera. In 2011, a musical theatre adaptation of the novel was presented by the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, West Yorkshire; Adapted by David Wood with music by Richard Taylor and lyrics by Wood and Taylor, the same production was remounted and opened at London's Apollo Theatre on 27 May 2016 and played its full twenty-week engagement, closing on 15 October 2016. The Go-Between The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it
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