<DIV><DIV>With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in <I>Hapgood </I>devised a play that “spins an end-of-the-cold-war tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light” (David Richards, <I>The New York Times</I>)<I>. </I>It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top-secret scientific discoveries to the Soviets, but as she does so, the web of personal and professional betrayals—doubles and triples and possibly quadruples—continues to multiply. <P></P></DIV></DIV>