"How long is the show?" I heard another audience member ask an usher. "It ends at
ten past ten." "But that's FOREVER!" How prescient an appraisal that turned out to
be of
The Go-Between, David Wood (book and lyrics) and Richard Taylor's
(music) chamber musical that would probably have been dull enough in an actual
chamber, but dies a slow, agonising death on a West End stage. Based on the L.P.
Hartley novel famous for the line "The past is a foreign country - everyone in it's
dead now and you'll wish you were too if you're watching this" (I may be
paraphrasing slightly,) Michael Crawford returns to the stage to play Leo Colston,
who looks back through his diaries from the summer he turned 13, and spent three
weeks of his holidays at the house of school friend Marcus (Samuel Menhinick,
alternating with Archie Stevens and Matty Norgren.)
