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Hapgood (play)

Hapgood is a play byTom Stoppard, first produced in 1988. It is mainly about espionage, focusing on a British female spymaster (Hapgood) and her juggling of career and motherhood. The play also makes reference toquantum mechanics, includingNiels Bohr's "The answer is the question interrogated";Heisenberg'suncertainty principle; and the topological problem of theSeven Bridges of Königsberg. It is regarded as one of Stoppard’s weakest works.[1]

Hapgood
Written byTom Stoppard
CharactersHapgood
Blair
Kerner
Ridley
Wates
Merryweather
Maggs
Joe
Russian
Date premieredMarch 8, 1988 (1988-03-08)
Place premieredAldwych Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
SubjectEspionage,quantum mechanics

Productions

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In the original production in 1988, directed byPeter Wood,Felicity Kendal played Hapgood,Nigel Hawthorne played her friend and superior Blair andRoger Rees was their agent, the Soviet scientist Kerner. The production was a critical failure,[2] and it was revised significantly in 1994 for the first New York production.

The play premiered in the USOff-Broadway at theLincoln Center Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on 11 November 1994 and closed on 26 March 1995. Directed byJack O'Brien, the cast featuredJosef Sommer (Blair),David Strathairn (Kerner) andStockard Channing (Hapgood).Jack O'Brien won the 1995 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^Billington, Michael (17 January 2015)."Tom Stoppard: playwright of ideas delivers a new Problem".The Guardian.ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved17 July 2019.
  2. ^Edwards, Christopher (19 March 1988). "Trick of the light".The Spectator:43–44.
  3. ^Hapgood lortel.org, accessed 28 February 2016
  4. ^Canby, Vincent."Sunday View. A Witty Thriller By Tom Stoppard Doubles the Fun"The New York Times, 11 December 1994


 

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