Extensive Definition
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.