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
The Go-Between by her as his own. He had died in 1910, while Marcus and his elder brother were killed in the First World War and Marian's son in the second. In the end, the elderly Marian persuades Leo, the only other survivor from her past, to act once more as go-between and assure her estranged grandson that there was nothing to be ashamed of in her affair with Ted Burgess. "The Go-Between" was first published in Britain by Hamish Hamilton in 1953. In the USA its publisher was Alfred A. Knopf in the summer of 1954, and the book was slow