Confessions of a Ci-Devant

Musings on history, life, popular culture, and art by historian Gareth Russell. All opinions, unless otherwise stated, are either my own or possibly Gabrielle de Polignac's.

Thursday, 20 March 2014

"The man who could have saved the French monarchy"?: Amos McCormack gives an interview about playing a modernised version of Monsieur Necker

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With his name Anglicised to Jack Necker and his vocation modernised into one of television interviews and mass party rallies, The Gate...
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Sunday, 16 March 2014

"His God and his country": David Paulin's interview on playing the prince who inspired the ultra-Right

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David Paulin as the prince who became Charles X in The Gate of the Year In the glittering world of high society before the revolution,...
Friday, 14 March 2014

Emma Taylor talks about Marie-Antoinette and "The Gate of the Year"

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"I would rather die bravely than live without honour": Emma Taylor as Marie-Antoinette in Act II of The Gate of the Year Aft...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Rebecca Lenaghan talks playing Madame de Polignac

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Revered as one of the most iconic beauties of the eighteenth century and reviled as a symbol of pre-revolutionary society's elitism...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

"The Gate of the Year" review

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David Paulin (left) as Charles of Artois and Jordan Dunbar as the Count d'Adhemar de Montfalcon in The Gate of the Year , the story of...
Sunday, 2 March 2014

"The Gate of the Year"

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This week, my newest play The Gate of the Year  is premiering in the Belvoir Players' Studio in south Belfast. The Gate of the Year...
Saturday, 28 December 2013

Some of my favourite reads of 2013

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Tudor: The Family Story  by Leanda de Lisle. Leanda's biography of Lady Jane Grey and her sisters Katherine and Mary is my favourite ...
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Gareth Russell is the author of four works of non-fiction, including the critically-acclaimed biography of Queen Catherine Howard, "Young and Damned and Fair", and two novels set in his native Belfast.
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