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The first performance of Hapgood took place at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on March 8, 1988, in a
production presented by Michael Codron. The play was directed by Peter Wood, and designed by Carl Toms,
with lighting by David Hersey.
SYNOPSIS
Does light come in waves or particles? Experiment will show either: the experimenter can choose. "A double
agent is like a trick of the light," Kerner the physicist tells Blair the spycatcher. "You get what you interrogate
for." Dual natures, of light and of people, are the theme of Tom Stoppard's espionage thriller. Kerner's secret
research is being leaked to Moscow. Is Ridley the double? Or is Kerner a triple? Hapgood is the person to find
out, and maybe it will need two of her.
-- faber and faber paperback edition
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