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 (1971 film) Losey was unable to get finance then or again in 1968. "The company had cold feet about the story," said Losey. "It was too tame for the pornographic age. As one man put it, who would be interested in a bit of Edwardian nostalgia? That's idiotic. It is certainly not a romantic or sentimental piece. It has a surface and a coating of romantic melodrama, but it has a bitter core." Losey said he was attracted to the novel because it was about "the terrible sense of shortness of any human life, the sense of totality of life." Pinter's screenplay