Hapgood

Review When Stoppard closes one door, he opens another. Then he goes back to the original door and reopens that, then he opens a third door... and pretty soon we are hilariously, elegantly and completely foxed. ― ObserverUnparalleled verbal dexterity, and ... a rollicking spy story to boot. ― Time OutBest to submit to the unique Stoppardian experience, be carried long by this clever and theatrically playful spymaster - and savour the wit and wordplay ... and the fact that, in the end, everything makes perfect emotional sense. ― Mail on Sunday Product Description I can't remember which side I'm supposed to be working for, and it is not in fact necessary for me to know.The Cold War is approaching its endgame and somebody in spymaster Elizabeth Hapgood's network is leaking secrets. Is her star double agent really a triple? The trap she sets becomes a hall of mirrors in which betrayal is personal and treachery a trick of the light.Tom Stoppard's Hapgood premiered at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in March 1988. It was revived at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2015. About the Author Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll, The Hard Problem and Leopoldstadt.His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. Film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.