Hapgood

Hapgood is a 1988 play by British playwright Tom Stoppard (1937- ) [1].

The original text

A play about espionage, focusing on a British female spymaster (Hapgood) and her juggling of career and motherhood, it was first performed in 1988, directed by Peter Wood, with Felicity Kendal, Nigel Hawthorne and Roger Rees. Revised significantly in 1994 for the first New York production at the Lincoln Center Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on 11 November 1994.

Performance history in South Africa

1989: Staged by PACT in the State Theatre in Pretoria and the Alexander Theatre in Johannesburg, directed by Bobby Heaney, with Fiona Ramsay (Hapgood), Michael McCabe (Blair), James Borthwick (Kerner), Graham Hopkins (Ridley), Peter Se-Puma (Wates), Christopher Wells (Maggs), Terence Reis (Merryweather), Giles Banton/Darryl Fuchs (Joe) and Sean Gregory (Russian). Designed by Lindy Roberts and lighting by Stan Knight.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapgood_%28play%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard

PACT theatre programme, 1989.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

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