The casting was the idea of director Trevor Nunn, who had cast them together before, in Tom Stoppard's 2006 play Rock'n'Roll.

这个角色是导演特雷弗·纳恩的主意，他曾在 2006 年汤姆斯·托帕德执导的戏剧《摇滚》中让他们合作过。

Not long after college, Hanks took his father, Amos " Bud" Hanks, who worked as a restaurant cook, to a performance of Tom Stoppard's Travesties staged by a repertory company that the younger Hanks admired.

大学毕业后不久，汉克斯带着当餐馆厨师的父亲阿莫斯·巴德·汉克斯去看了汤姆·斯托帕德出演的《Travesties》，该剧目的举办方是小汉克斯喜欢的常驻剧团。

There's an excellent quote by Tom Stoppard in " Arcadia, " " When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone on an empty shore, " which I always loved.

汤姆·斯托帕德在《世外桃源》中有一句名言，“当我们找到所有的奥秘并失去所有的意义时，我们将独自一人在空荡荡的海岸上，”我一直很喜欢。