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(July 26, 1856 November 2nd, 1950)

George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26 1856 in Dublin Ireland the son of a civil servant. Although he was best known for drama, he was also proficient in the areas of journalism, music and literary criticism. He began his literary career as a novelist. Shaws works concerned themselves mostly with prevailing social problems, specifically with what he saw as the exploitation of the working middle class. Shaw attended various schools throughout his youth but always harboured an animosity towards schools and teachers. He is quoted as saying that Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parents.

In his personal life, Shaw was an avid Socialist and a member of the Fabian society. In 1898 he married fellow Fabian member and Irish heiress Charlotte Payne-Townsend. He was the first person to be awarded the Nobel prize for Literature as well as an Oscar (for his work on Pygmalion, which was an adaptation of his play of the same name). He wrote 60 plays, most of which deal with social themes such as marriage, religion, class government and health care. Two of his greatest influences were Henrik Ibsen and Henry Fielding. Ibsens plays and Fieldings expulsion from playwriting inspired him to write his own plays on the social injustices of the world around him, including the late nineteenth century censorship of plays, continued from Prime Minister Walpoles rein in the mid 1740s. The Lord Chamberlains Examiner of Plays especially irked him:A gentleman who robs, insults, and suppresses me as irresistibly as if he were the Tsar of Russia and I the meanest of his subjects But I must submit [my play] in order to obtain from him an insolent and insufferable document, which I cannot read without boiling of the blood, certifying that in his opinion his opinion! my play does not in its general tendency contain anything immoral or otherwise improper for the stage, and that the Lord Chamberlain therefore allows its performance (confound his impudence!). (Mainly xv)

George Bernard Shaw died at the age of 94 due to injuries incurred from falling while pruning a tree.

Listen to an Interview with George Bernard Shaw from 1937.

If you would like to know what Shaw thought about something, the NYTimes has an archive of Shaw: his quotes, his opinions, pictures, etc.

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Date writtenTitleYear first performed (plays)Year of publication1878The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel)unpublished1878"My Dear Dorothea..."19061878Passion Play (fragment)19711879Immaturity (novel)19301880The Irrational Knot (novel)serial 18857; book 19051881Love Among the Artists (novel)serial 18878; book 19001882Cashel Byron's Profession (novel)serial 18856; book 1886; rev 1889, 19011883An Unsocial Socialist (novel)serial 1884; book 18871884"A Manifesto" (Fabian tract 2)18841884Un Petit Drame (playlet)1959188492Widowers' Houses (play)18931893; rev. 18981885"The Miraculous Revenge" (short story)1906[n 1]1885To provident landlords and capitalists (Fabian tract 3)18851887The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)1887188788An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment)19581889Fabian Essays in Socialism (ed. Shaw with 2 Shaw essays)1889; rev. 1908, 1931, 19481890What socialism is (Fabian tract 13)18901890"Ibsen" (Lecture before the Fabian Society19701891The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism)1891; rev. 19131892Fabian election manifesto (Fabian tract 40)18921892The Fabian Society: what it has done, and how it has done it (Fabian tract 42)1892 rev. 18991892"Vote! Vote!! Vote!!!" (Fabian Tract 43)18921893The Impossibilities of Anarchism (Fabian tract 45)18921893The Philanderer (play)190518981893Mrs Warren's Profession (play)19021898, rev. 1930189394Arms and The Man (play)18941898, rev. 19301894A Plan of Campaign for Labor (incorporating "To Your Tents, O Israel") (Fabian tract 49)18941894Candida (play)18971898, rev. 19301895The Man of Destiny (play)18971898, rev. 19301895The Sanity of Art (art criticism)1895, rev. 1908189596You Never Can Tell (play)18991898, rev. 19301896Fabian report and resolutions to the IS and TU Congress (Fabian tract 70)18961896The Devil's Disciple (play)18971901, rev. 19041898The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism)1898, rev. 19071898Caesar and Cleopatra (play)19011901, rev. 19301899Captain Brassbound's Conversion (play)190019011900Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw)19001900Women as councillors (Fabian tract 93)19001901Socialism for millionaires (Fabian tract 107) )19011901The Admirable Bashville (play)19021901190102Man and Superman incorporating Don Juan in Hell (play)19051903; rev. 19301904Fabianism and the fiscal question (Fabian tract 116)19041904John Bull's Other Island (play)19041907; rev. 19301904How He Lied to Her Husband (play)190419071904The Common Sense of Municipal Trading (social commentary)19081905Major Barbara (play)19051907; rev. 1930, 19451905Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction (play)190519051906The Doctor's Dilemma (play)190619111907The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet)19071927190708Getting Married (play)19081911190708Brieux: A Preface (criticism)19101909The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (play)19091911; rev. 19301909Press Cuttings (play)190919091909The Glimpse of Reality (play)192719261909The Fascinating Foundling (play)192819261909Misalliance (play)19101914; rev. 19301910Socialism and superior brains: a reply to Mr. Mallock (Fabian tract 146)19261910The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (play)19101914191011Fanny's First Play (play)19111914;1912Androcles and the Lion (play)191319161912Overruled (play)191219161912Pygmalion19131916; rev. 19411913Beauty's Duty (playlet)19321913Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores (play)19131919191314The Music-Cure (play)191419261914Common Sense about The War (political commentary)19141914The Case for Belgium (pamphlet)19141915The Inca of Perusalem (play)191619191915O'Flaherty V.C. (play)191719191915More Common Sense about The War (political commentary)unpublished1916Augustus Does His Bit (play)19171919191617Heartbreak House (play)192019191917Doctors Delusions; Crude Criminology; Sham Education (compilation)19311917Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (play)191819191917How To Settle The Irish Question (political commentary)19171917What I Really Wrote about The War (political commentary)1931191820Back to Methuselah (play)19221921; rev. 1930, 19451919Peace Conference Hints (political commentary)19191919Ruskin's Politics (lecture of 21 November 1919)1921192021Jitta's Atonement (play, adapted from the German)192319261923Saint Joan (play)192319241925Imprisonment (social commentary)1925; rev. 1946 as The Crime of Imprisonment1928The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism1928; rev. 19371928The Apple Cart (play)192919301929The League of Nations (political commentary)19291930Socialism: Principles and Outlook, and Fabianism (Fabian tract 233)19291931Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism)1931193134The Millionairess (play)193619361932The Adventures of the Black Girl In Her Search for God (story)19321932Essays in Fabian Socialism (reprinted tracts with 2 new essays)19321932The Rationalization of Russia (political commentary)1964[7]1933The Future of Political Science in America (political commentary)19331933Village Wooing (play)193419341933On The Rocks (play)193319341934The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (play)193519361934The Six of Calais (play)193419361934Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings (stories & playlets)193419341936Arthur and the Acetone (playlet)193619361936Cymbeline Refinished (play)193719381936Geneva (play)19381939; rev. 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947193647Buoyant Billions (play)19481949193738Pygmalion (film screenplay, with co-writers)19381941[10]193839In Good King Charles's Golden Days (play)19391939; rev. 19471939Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany19391944Everybodys Political What's What (political commentary)19441948Farfetched Fables (play)195019511948The RADA Graduates' Keeepsake and Counsellor (RADA handbook)1948[11] 1949Sixteen Self Sketches (revision of Shaw Gives Himself Away)19491949Shakes versus Shav (puppet play)194919501950Why She Would Not (play)195719601950Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence1950

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The Dry is about drinking, and staying sober while putting up with family, ex-lovers, the past and the present with all its rituals and events where everybody drinksPeter Rowen/Courtesy of CBC Gem

George Bernard Shaw said this of his native Ireland: Your wits cant thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather.

Right, well, thats a nice poetic passage and it goes on for a bit longer, but the issue in Ireland isnt just the soft, moist air. Its the tolerance of drinking; the copious social and personal drinking that leads to what they call, the craic, the fun and revelry. If the craic is good, everythings grand, until it isnt, for some people.

The Dry (streams CBC Gem) is about drinking, and staying sober while putting up with family, ex-lovers, the past and the present with all its rituals and events where everybody drinks. The series arrives here with outstanding reviews. Masterful, wrote reviewer Chitra Ramaswamy in The Guardian, and sharply observed and superb wrote Joe Clay in The Times. Yes, its very, very good; wryly comical, sometimes dark and often bitingly funny. From the same team that adapted Normal People, it has that shows alertness to dysfunctional family awkwardness, with dashes of the absurdity found in Derry Girls.

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Its about Shiv (Roisin Gallagher) and we meet her as she arrives back in Dublin from London following the death of her grandmother. At the airport she waits in vain for a family member to collect her. And, while having coffee, she sees a nearby man consume a pint of Guinness, and then start on a second pint. Are you okay? she asks the man. His astonished reply is, What? To which she observes, Youre drinking at nine in the morning! His conclusion is that shes a religious nut and its an outrage that a man cant enjoy a pint at the airport without being bothered by such people.

Shiv is 35 years old, six months sober and hanging on. At her parents home, theres a wake for her granny. The corpse is in the living room and theres a lot of fuss and acid remarks being thrown around. Her dad, Tom (Ciaran Hinds, who is wonderful), is wondering if he can have a drink at the wake, or would that upset Shiv? His wife, Bernie (Pom Boyd), shrugs and says, We can put up with her for one weekend, cant we? Just dont get pissed.

Its just that Shiv is actually broke, out of work and planning to move back and live with her parents. That means putting up with her no-nonsense sister, Caroline (Siobhan Cullen), a doctor who heaps corn on any belief that isnt scientific, and her brother, Ant (Adam John Richardson). Ant is gay, lives in the garden shed and obliges his parents to put up with an endless stream of lovers who come and go.

Siobhn Cullen plays Caroline in The Dry.Peter Rowen/Courtesy of CBC Gem

Everyone has some secrets here but there is no melodrama about that. The sheer vitality of the series eight half-hour episodes, two available now is rooted in the talk and glancing social exchanges. Everyone talks using expletives and everyone exists in the Irish world of winks and nods, the truth about things existing plainly but not necessarily mentioned. The humour is what makes it gel as absurd but relatable comedy-drama. One gloriously jolting scene has Shiv encounter her old teacher from school at a posh recovery meeting in the Dublin suburbs. The retired teacher has a scathing assessment of Shiv and you dont know whether to laugh or have sympathy for these two characters.

Written by playwright Nancy Harris, The Dry is both deliberately unsettling and highly entertaining. Its one of those series that exists thanks to streaming services it was originally created for BritBox being an unconventional, prickly take on sobriety and its difficulties in a culture that wont necessarily cheer you on toward staying sober. Like Single Drunk Female (streams Disney+), it has a humorous approach that doesnt deny the despair in alcoholism but doesnt preach, either. Its breezily cold-hearted about everyone surrounding the central character, but it feels authentically funny and wise.

With the singing, the drinking, the jokes and the touches of self-loathing, this unusual little series isnt for the faint-hearted. But theres sobering poetry in its soul, without being Shavian and long-winded about it.

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Ive just noticed that the Episcopal Church observes today, the 13th of June, as a feast, of sorts, for Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

He is perhaps best known as G. K. Chesterton. According to Wikipedia his friendly enemy George Bernard Shaw spoke of Chesterton as a man of colossal genius. And a public intellectual of his time and place.

Chesterton was a wit and a controversialist. He was a both a literary and social critic. he turned his hand to history, he wrote plays, and short stories and novels, the most famous and abiding is the Man Who Was Thursday.

He certainly was not all light and sweetness. Among his less endearing traits was his genteel anti-semitism which often marred his writings and observations. Although it should be noted he rejected the term throughout his life, even as he was followed by the accusations all the way. (Ive been thinking a lot about genteel antisemitism of late, and what a nasty worm it is. But, thats for another reflection.) Chesterton was many things. This was a nasty part, but a part.

The man certainly could write. And I read several of his spiritual books. Me, I liked his spiritual biographies of Francis and Thomas Aquinas a lot. I didnt particularly care for Orthodoxy, although many I know think it his best work.

Of his writings I enjoyed his Father Brown stories most, and most of all the various adaptations of the snooping priest. Which Ive found often better than the originals. As I think he is less and less read, it is beginning to look like the various adaptations of his Father Brown stories are going to be his half life. Of course, one never knows for sure about such things

Chestertons spiritual journey took him from a non-practicing Unitarianism in his childhood, to Anglicanism to Anglo Catholicism and eventually he crossed the Tiber to Rome. While he is said to have eschewed both right and left,The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. He always seemed pretty conservative to me. In fact I think of him less as conservative and more as reactionary. An eloquent get-off-my lawn sort, waving a really nice and expensive walking stick

Most of all, I like the fact the Episcopal church, despite his eventual apostasy, honors their wayward son in their calendar

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Gingold Theatrical Group has announced that online patrons will be able to purchase and stream the company's recent off-Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. The stream will be available June 21-27 on Broadway On Demand. Tickets are $25 and are available for pre-order now.

Scandalous when it first appeared at the dawn of the 20th century, Mrs. Warren's Profession tells the story of a working-class woman who has elbowed her way into the upper crust by establishing a chain of very successful brothels. Tony winner Karen Ziemba starred in the title role when Gingold revived the play off-Broadway in 2021.

"Karen Ziemba brilliantly embodies the bare-knuckled practicality of Kitty Warren, who bucks the same system that she eventually becomes a part of," writes Pete Hempstead in his review for TheaterMania.

In addition to Ziemba, the production starred Robert Cuccioli, David Lee Huynh, Alvin Keith, Nicole King, and Raphael Nash Thompson. Gingold artistic director David Staller helmed the production.

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June 10, 2022 - From renowned authors to thrilling narratives and illustrious actors and producers, there are certain masterpieces that reveal something essential about the crescent-shaped country of Europe. Croatia, a country overflowing with culture and a home to many creative souls, has faced richly deserved appreciation from various cultural works. These people and narratives have become integral to the countrys identity, demonstrating the way it is perceived through the eyes of foreigners. A look at the art that defines Croatia.

Croatia has revealed itself to be a nation forged in war, emerging precisely in 1991 as an independent country. The centuries of unrest at the outer edges of earlier empires, as well as a devastating civil war when Titos Yugoslavia collapsed, had soon formed one of the most dynamic and creative countries in Europe; showcasing brilliancy to any tourist deciding to visit.

Starting from some of the distinguished books set in Croatia that depict the countrys enigmatic history, many will divulge in the Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; A journey through Yugoslavia written and published by Rebecca West. While those searching for a light-hearted novella might be lured into Two Tickets to Dubrovnik by Angus Kennedy as he depicts the areas history and draws up a beautiful setting of the city.

Moreover, not only are their books set in the celebrated central European and Mediterranean country but there are also authors who have shared their views on Croatias mesmerising landscapes. The great walled city of Dubrovnik, a popular tourist destination situated on the southern Adriatic coast, is famously known to be the pearl of the Adriatic as its picturesque views stun the most renowned poets of the world. This description from Lord Byron in the nineteenth century one of the greatest Romantic poets in English Literature has become unnoticed by numerous tourists that visit Dubrovnik every year.

Additionally, George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who has been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Academy Award, shared his sentiments on the citys sheer magnificence. Upon his visit to Dubrovnik in 1929 he revealed: If you want to see Heaven on Earth, come to Dubrovnik.

And of course, you know that it is no secret that Game of Thrones was set in Dubrovnik as its primary filming location, but were you aware that the country itself has been continuously producing fascinating talents within the movie industry? Some of these surprising actors and producers include John Malkovich who has received Academy Award Nominations for his distinguished performances and Goran Vinji a Croatian American actor making an appearance in both American and British films and television productions.

For many, Croatia is the entrance to the New World, and the countrys distinct personality has been shaped by generations of shocking talents who have passed through or lived in the country. Its nation conveys incredible nature, astonishing history, and generations of artists who celebrate the beauty of such land. So, it seems that no aspect of the culture-rich country of Croatia has gone unexplored by authors or even filmmakers making it a sight worth seeing!

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Ann Learys first book was An Innocent, A Broad in 2004 about the (mostly) comic travails she and her husband Denis Leary endured when a short trip to London ended up lasting five months, while Leary was pregnant with their first child.

Since then Leary has published five novels, which tend to be about family, small communities, interesting work opportunities and romance. Her 2012 bestseller, The Good House, has been made into a movie starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline that will screen this month at the Tribeca Film Festival and in cinemas this fall.

Ann Learys latest novel, The Foundling (Marysue Rucci Books, 2022), is the vivid, often alarming, tale of a young woman named Mary who works at the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age in the 1920s. The asylum is fictional but based on one Learys grandmother worked at. The novel is the result of years of research into mental health treatments in the early 20th century. The book also touches on racism and sexism in that era, and the controversial eugenics movement, whose goal was to eliminate undesirable genetic traits in the humans through selective breeding.

Ann Leary is signing and discussing The Foundling at four different places in Connecticut in the next couple of weeks: Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Elm Street Books in New Canaan, Friday at 7 p.m. at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Saturday at 3 p.m. at The Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, and June 28 at 7 p.m. at Athena Books in Old Greenwich.

The Mark Twain House and Hickory Stick appearances will also feature Learys husband, the creator and star of the TV series Rescue Me, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and The Job, who is also a noted comedian and movie actor.

The Courant spoke to Ann Leary, who recently moved to Westchester County in New York after living in Litchfield County for 20 years, about Connecticut, the dark side of the 1920s and how a book discussion with Denis Leary might go.

Do you and your husband have a plan for what youll do at the Mark Twain House?

No! Denis tweeted the cutest thing: For the first time ever I am able to interview Ann Leary. We havent really talked about it. What can he ask me that he doesnt know? But Denis has always been the biggest fan of my books. This book, in particular, he loved the first draft. He has produced multiple series, and hes always seen this book becoming perhaps a limited series for television. Ive decided my husband knows what hes doing, and I want him to produce this adaptation. So hes not only interviewing me because he knows the book, but hes also very much involved in the future of this book. Maybe well talk about that a little bit.

How long have you been together?

I met Denis in 1982. Weve been living together ever since then. I moved to Boston in 82. I was at Bennington College for a few years, then I transferred to Emerson in Boston and I met Denis, who was teaching this comedy writing workshop. I took the class and it was really fun. Denis was 25, I was 20. When the semester was over, we went out and had a beer. We started kind of seeing each other and then one night he stayed over and he never left.

The Foundling is new territory for you. Youve done multi-generational novels but not a historical novel.

I really enjoyed it, actually, because Ive always loved research and history, especially American history, and my favorite era has always been the 1920s. Id always thought of it as this decadent, flapper, devil-may-care Zelda Fitzgerald time. I thought it was when restrictions on women were loosened and morals were loosened, and they were. If you were wealthy in the 1920s and you were a woman, you get drunk even though there was prohibition. You could have sex outside of marriage. If you were not rich, doing those exact same behaviors made you a menace to society and you would likely be institutionalized. It [was] very much a class thing.

Ann Leary's new novel "The Foundling," set in an asylum for women in the 1920s. (Marysue Rucci Books)

You write a lot about subcultures, including a work culture in this one.

The book is a novel, its actually fiction though its loosely based on my grandmother. The Foundling is about two young women who grew up in the same orphanage in Scranton, Pennsylvania and met up years later at a different kind of institution. Mary was a secretary to the very charismatic female doctor who ran the place, and Lilian was what they called one of the inmates, who was confined there against her will. It turns out that it was a eugenics asylum, where the purpose was to confine women of child-bearing age from having children because they were feebleminded. In those days, feebleminded was not a slur, it was a clinical term.

I found there also women in these asylums who were, and again this is the clinical term, degenerate women. They were morally feebleminded. They were bad girls or and I found this very dismaying they might be a 13-year-old who accused her stepfather of molesting her or a woman whose husband was sick of her, and in those days it was hard to get a divorce. You could easily end up in an asylum like this, and the of child-bearing age part of it is actually more offensive than the feebleminded part of the title because if you went there, if you were 12 or 25, didnt matter, you didnt get to leave until you were in menopause. You werent sent there to get schooling, to get help, you were sent there to prevent you from having children.

You use words like dullwitted and befuddled and other offensive words, but they come out of the characters.

That was a real challenge. By the time I came down to writing it, it was just this jargon I was used to. So yeah, a doctor, head of a world-renowned institution for supposed intellectual disabilities, could refer to how many idiots they had versus imbeciles or morons. Also, the racism is so overt. There were no dog whistles. I was shocked by the newspaper headlines, the words used. The horrible racism, anti-semitism, the outright sexism of that time was shocking.

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So then when I was writing, getting early feedback, especially from young editorial assistants saying, This isnt OK. Why isnt Mary fighting it? Why didnt she leave? I realized I needed an authors note at the beginning of the book because people seemed to think from the early drafts that the eugenics movement was a hate group, and it wasnt. It was the law, an ideology of race held by everyone from Theodore Roosevelt to Winston Churchill to George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, Margaret Sanger. Many people embraced eugenics. So I had to write that into the narrative, and it was hard because I wanted people to not hate Mary. I didnt want to make her a woman of today because women in those days werent as they are today. They didnt have the full rights of citizens. They had the right to vote in the 1920s, but very few of the other rights men had.like this.

I did love writing this book. I hope people can put it in context with the time. I really cant stand anachronistic writing. I had to make the characters be people of that time, and then within those confines somehow enact change if they were able.

Christopher Arnott can be reached at carnott@courant.com.

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Starring in his first big blockbuster role, Mamoudou Athie is one of the newest additions to the beloved Jurassic World franchise. Having made waves with his performance in the Netflix series Archive 81, Athie has now dove into the world of toothy dinosaurs in Colin Trevorrows final entry in the pre-historic series Jurassic World Dominion.

Following on from the events of Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World Dominion tells the story of a new age of human and dinosaur cohabitation. The adventure movie is action-packed and directly taps into Steven Spielbergs original Jurassic Park movies bringing in legacy actors Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum for a brand new adventure.

Athie plays the role of Ramsay Cole, the head of communications at Biosyn. In our interview with the Emmy nominated star, we discuss how he skipped the traditional audition process to land his role in Dominion and break down what the experience of working on his first multi-million dollar blockbuster was really like.

The Digital Fix: Jurassic Park has been going on since the 90s, and so many people love it. How do you prepare for coming into such an iconic franchise?

Mamoudou Athie: Oh, you know what? Im so sorry, but honestly, I did it the same way I do everything else (laughs). I really am just like, Heres the script. I got the director here; were going to chat a lot. I want to work on this the same way as I do everything else.

And then the rest of it was like learning on the job because there are certain things that were brand new to me. But yeah, honestly, its always kind of the same process.

Your character has quite a few scenes with the legacy actors from the original Jurassic Park movies. You mentioned how there were things that you havent done before in this film. Did you get any advice from them?

Oh, you know what? Because my first scene was with Sam [Neill] and Laura [Dern] and that Ive been saying this a lot, but I really dont get starstruck. I dont care, typically. But those two, I mean, not only do I admire their work, but because Id seen them in those parts, and it made such an impression on me as a kid, I was nervous. And you could tell (laughs). You could tell.

So they kind of helped me relax. And they were just really generous and supportive. So in that sense, it wasnt specific advice to try like this or anything. It was more just like, Hey, you know, were just hanging out here. And, Lets go. Yes. Great.

I read somewhere that you didnt go through the typical audition process to get your role.

Oh yeah, I know!

Can you tell me how you got cast as Ramsay, and what attracted you to the character?

A phone call and then a meeting with Colin. We just had lobster rolls in Malibu. (laughs)We just chatted for three hours about video games and all kinds of stuff. And eventually, crazily, I got a call saying, he wanted to offer me the part.

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Which I was like, This is, this is the job that I get the offer for? (laughs) This is bizarre beyond belief. But also, what a gift. Yeah, what was the second part of your question?

What attracted you to the character? What made you say yes to Colins offer?

Oh, thank you, yes. You know, its rare that you get the script these days for these kinds of movies. So I didnt get the script until after Id said yes. But Colin had described the character to me. And I was like, Oh, that sounds great.

You know, hed seen this movie that I was in, The Front Runner. And there were certain elements of that character that he enjoyed, but also we wanted to make [Ramsay], you know, a new guy.

So yeah, we kind of just worked on it while were making the movie to make it kind of the person you saw. Hes certainly more comedic than initially written.

So Jurassic World Dominion is set to be the last one in the trilogy

Yeah.

But producer Frank Marshall said that hes open to making more movies. Is it possible, if that does happen, that we will see Ramsay return? He plays such a big role in this film.

Oh, yeah! I mean, anythings possible. You know? Who knows? But its hard for me to speculate on when, how, who, and what, you know? But Im always open. Yeah. Itd be cool.

Following on from that, would you be open to doing more big blockbusters then?

Sure! Yeah, as long as there are cool people absolutely! Yeah. Colin is great to work with. [Jurassic World Dominion] was really just like a lot of fun. And it was like a healthy set. Thats really whats important to me these days.

Yeah, how was Colin directing you? Especially with scenes where there are dinosaurs. Because obviously, sometimes those creatures arent physically there.

I didnt have that many scenes with them, though.

Ah, without giving too many spoilers, at the end, you did.

(laughs) Yes, you are right, in the end I did. Actually, there was this one moment, Colin did call me aside because I looked very excited to be on a Jurassic World set. So I was like, Oh!, and he was like, Hey, man. Hey, hey, this dude looks really happy to be in Jurassic World. (laughs) Thats hilarious. I hope he shows somebody that footage; it is ridiculous.

But yeah, no (laughs). I mean, its really just about, again, precision and just knowing exactly where to look and where to stop and how to interact. And then the rest of its your imagination.

Besides Colin pulling you aside, were there any other onset moments that, looking back, were really fun to film? Any you are going to remember fondly going forward?

[laughs] Im censoring myself. Yeah, I mean, like, especially when were all on set. I mean, it was a crazy couple of days because the election was going on in the States, and we were watching what was going on with that. But then were also having this crazy time where we are like, looking at this imaginary T-Rex and Giganotosaurus (laughs).

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And then we end up in this helicopter, and then Jeff [Goldblum] ends up reciting this poem from George Bernard Shaw thats so beautiful. That scene is actually filmed by the BTS team so that everybody can actually see it was really cool.

Its just like this very impromptu beautiful moment. Those days kind of as a swirl were like really some of my favourites

Jurassic World Dominion hits theatres on June 10, 2022.

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Nice walks in Welwyn Garden City and Wheathampstead – Welwyn Hatfield Times

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As the WHT is all too aware many of us are cooped up while obeying the Stay at Home message from the government.

Ayot Greenway from Welwyn Garden City to Wheathampstead - Credit: Archant

But that does not mean you cannot use your one bit of exercise a day to go somewhere new and interesting in Welwyn Garden City - in addition tothe parks and green spaces we are luckyto have.

Ayot Greenway from Welwyn Garden City to Wheathampstead - Credit: Archant

The Ayot Greenway, which runs from Welwyn Garden City toWheathampstead, is off road and is a nice walk with lots of trees, some streams and fields.

Ayot Greenway from Welwyn Garden City to Wheathampstead - Credit: Archant

The track runs three miles along a former branch line from Welwyn Garden City railway station towards Luton and Dunstable, and ends in the mock station, complete with a statue of playwright George Bernard Shaw.

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Walking toWheathampstead also allows you to experience a new village, which has a 16th-century arch set in the brick wall in front of Wheathampstead Place and a remnant of our Iron Age past at the Devil's Dyke.

Ayot Greenway from Welwyn Garden City to Wheathampstead - Credit: Archant

Similarly, walking fromWheathampstead to Welwyn Garden City allows you to appreciate the Henry Moore statue in the town, brought for the centenary, as well as Stanborough and Panshanger Parks.

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Max Hastings, the ex-Telegraph editor, says few English people will care if Ireland is united. Photograph: iStock

Irish unification will take place within a generation, righting a historical wrong, one of Britains best known historians and journalists has suggested.

Max Hastings, a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard and the author of multiple books on military history, said such an outcome would serve the best interests of Irish people, save a rump of alienated Protestants, historically out of their time.

He described partition as a monstrous injustice which was done at the behest of a million Protestants whose forebears were planted in Ulster by Oliver Cromwells followers in the 17th century.

Ever since, the Northern Ireland fragment has been governed by a so-called Unionist Protestant majority, whose sole rationale is the negative one of staying out of the Irish Republic by remaining attached to Britain, he said.

Mr Hastings echoed comments made by the former British chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne that English people would not care if Ireland was united. Mr Osborne recently suggested Northern Ireland is heading for the exit door of the UK and few people will care.

Writing for Bloomberg, Mr Hasting said most British people did not care a fig for John Bulls other island as George Bernard Shaw described Ireland.

Polls show a slim majority in Northern Ireland for a referendum on Irish unity. If this comes, and should a majority choose to join the South, few English people will care.

He accused Ulster Unionists, who ruled Northern Ireland for 50 years until the abolition of Stormont in 1972, of treating the Catholic minority almost as harshly as US white segregationists in the old South treated African Americans.

Lord Brookeborough, a Protestant grandee who served as Ulster prime minister between 1943 and 1963, said without embarrassment that, while he knew fellow landowners who employed Catholics on their estates, he would never do so himself.

Mr Hastings worked as a journalist at the outset of the Troubles and witnessed the attack on Divis Flats in 1969 when it was sprayed by machine gun fire killing nine-year-old Patrick Rooney.

Most of us English spectators of the Troubles deplored the IRAs atrocities as much as we recoiled from institutionalised Protestant injustice.The next day, I heard Unionist ministers justifying police actions by pleading that they faced a Catholic uprising, he said.

The IRA later murdered hundreds of innocent people with bomb and bullet. Both sides had much to be ashamed of, before an uneasy truce was achieved by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Mr Hastings suggested the prosperity of the Republic made unification a possibility in a manner in which it was not in the 1960s.

Thus, even many Northern Catholics saw little economic advantage in embracing Dublin. Today, that has changed remarkably. With the collapse of old Northern industries, especially shipbuilding and textiles, the economy is kept alive only by massive subsidy from Britain 24 billion in public spending, against 14 billion collected in taxes.

The South, meanwhile, has become a prosperous, confident society, and an enthusiastic member of the EU.

Two minorities still see virtue in keeping Ireland partitioned. The first is composed of a diminishing number of stubborn Protestant Unionists, who dominate their own community, but would become marginalised in a united Ireland. Meanwhile, some Southern politicians are privately fearful of the perils of absorbing several hundred thousand embittered Proddies. Violence, so long an Irish tradition, remains very close beneath the countrys skin, and every Irish politician knows it well.

The witty and wise English writer Sydney Smith did not much exaggerate when he wrote two centuries ago: The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense.

Mr Hastings predicted that the Scottish will likely opt for independence, too, but the Welsh are unlikely to seek independence because of their economic dependence on the UK government.

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