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Hapgood is a play by Tom Stoppard. It is mainly about espionage, focusing on a British female spymaster (Hapgood) and her juggling of career and motherhood. The play also makes reference to quantum mechanics, including Niels Bohr's "The answer is the question interrogated"; Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; and the topological problem of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg.
In the original production in 1988, Felicity Kendal played Hapgood and Nigel Hawthorne played her friend and superior Blair.
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