Chris Megson
@chris-megson.bsky.social
🔹Academic in Drama/Theatre @ Royal Holloway University of London ➡️ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/chris-megson
🔹Student of Analytical Psychology ➡️ https://www.thesap.org.uk/
🔹For 📸 & 📝 on London history ➡️ http://Instagram.com/chris.megson
🔹Student of Analytical Psychology ➡️ https://www.thesap.org.uk/
🔹For 📸 & 📝 on London history ➡️ http://Instagram.com/chris.megson
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.
September 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.
Sending lots of luck and best wishes to those waiting for exam results tomorrow!
At @royalholloway.bsky.social, we have an expert team ready to answer any queries and help you make the choices right for you.
I can’t wait to meet the new Drama students! ✨✨
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
At @royalholloway.bsky.social, we have an expert team ready to answer any queries and help you make the choices right for you.
I can’t wait to meet the new Drama students! ✨✨
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Sending lots of luck and best wishes to those waiting for exam results tomorrow!
At @royalholloway.bsky.social, we have an expert team ready to answer any queries and help you make the choices right for you.
I can’t wait to meet the new Drama students! ✨✨
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
At @royalholloway.bsky.social, we have an expert team ready to answer any queries and help you make the choices right for you.
I can’t wait to meet the new Drama students! ✨✨
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
Two great new additions to @methuendrama.bsky.social’s Student Editions series: Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (introduced by Isaiah Matthew Wooden) & Kwame Kwei-Armah’s ‘Beneatha’s Place’ (introduced by Oladipo Agboluaje) 👏👏
Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions
Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions
July 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Two great new additions to @methuendrama.bsky.social’s Student Editions series: Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (introduced by Isaiah Matthew Wooden) & Kwame Kwei-Armah’s ‘Beneatha’s Place’ (introduced by Oladipo Agboluaje) 👏👏
Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions
Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions
The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social shared the results of their creative collab today with stagings of (pics 1-4) Henrik Ibsen’s WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN, Eugene O’Neill’s THE HAIRY APE, Sam Steiner’s LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, and Lucy Prebble’s THE EFFECT. Bravo to all! 🙌✨
May 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social shared the results of their creative collab today with stagings of (pics 1-4) Henrik Ibsen’s WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN, Eugene O’Neill’s THE HAIRY APE, Sam Steiner’s LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, and Lucy Prebble’s THE EFFECT. Bravo to all! 🙌✨
The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of the 2nd week of their creative collaboration. Performances today (pics 1-3): Chris Bush’s FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN, Edward Albee’s THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? & Patrick Hamilton’s GASLIGHT. A fantastic day! 👏
May 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of the 2nd week of their creative collaboration. Performances today (pics 1-3): Chris Bush’s FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN, Edward Albee’s THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? & Patrick Hamilton’s GASLIGHT. A fantastic day! 👏
The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of their creative collaboration over the next three Fridays. First up today (pics 1-3): scenes from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s EMILIA, Ella Hickson’s SWIVE [ELIZABETH], & Caryl Churchill’s LOVE AND INFORMATION. Terrific! 👏👏
May 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of their creative collaboration over the next three Fridays. First up today (pics 1-3): scenes from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s EMILIA, Ella Hickson’s SWIVE [ELIZABETH], & Caryl Churchill’s LOVE AND INFORMATION. Terrific! 👏👏
Just landing in the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social! Philip McMahon’s powerful and life-affirming ‘Once Before I Go’, with a terrific introduction from Fintan Walsh that includes an interview with McMahon. ✨
Further info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
Further info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
May 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Just landing in the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social! Philip McMahon’s powerful and life-affirming ‘Once Before I Go’, with a terrific introduction from Fintan Walsh that includes an interview with McMahon. ✨
Further info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
Further info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
There are now 100+ plays in the Methuen Drama Student Editions series and these are just some of the latest publications! Proud to be one of the series editors - there’s much more to come! @methuendrama.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There are now 100+ plays in the Methuen Drama Student Editions series and these are just some of the latest publications! Proud to be one of the series editors - there’s much more to come! @methuendrama.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Delighted to be giving this lecture (online) this week to research students of Modern British Drama and English Literature/Linguistics at Chungbuk National University in South Korea.
The event is curated by the wonderful Heebon Park-Finch & funded by Dept of English Language & Literature. 🙏
The event is curated by the wonderful Heebon Park-Finch & funded by Dept of English Language & Literature. 🙏
April 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Delighted to be giving this lecture (online) this week to research students of Modern British Drama and English Literature/Linguistics at Chungbuk National University in South Korea.
The event is curated by the wonderful Heebon Park-Finch & funded by Dept of English Language & Literature. 🙏
The event is curated by the wonderful Heebon Park-Finch & funded by Dept of English Language & Literature. 🙏
Day 2 of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social!
On the menu: surrealist dance, absurdist political theatre, a nightmarish adaptation of Dorian Gray, and a riotous feminist farce on witch-hunting. It’s been a fantastic event - huge congrats to all involved! ✨💐👏👏
On the menu: surrealist dance, absurdist political theatre, a nightmarish adaptation of Dorian Gray, and a riotous feminist farce on witch-hunting. It’s been a fantastic event - huge congrats to all involved! ✨💐👏👏
April 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Day 2 of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social!
On the menu: surrealist dance, absurdist political theatre, a nightmarish adaptation of Dorian Gray, and a riotous feminist farce on witch-hunting. It’s been a fantastic event - huge congrats to all involved! ✨💐👏👏
On the menu: surrealist dance, absurdist political theatre, a nightmarish adaptation of Dorian Gray, and a riotous feminist farce on witch-hunting. It’s been a fantastic event - huge congrats to all involved! ✨💐👏👏
From gig theatre to Greek tragedy and multimedia performance. Scenes from the fantastic first day of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social. More tomorrow! ✨✨✨
April 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
From gig theatre to Greek tragedy and multimedia performance. Scenes from the fantastic first day of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social. More tomorrow! ✨✨✨
Pleased to have an essay in this new book on Dennis Kelly’s writing for stage and screen. Congratulations to Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden, who’ve edited the volume with such care and rigour. 👏
March 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pleased to have an essay in this new book on Dennis Kelly’s writing for stage and screen. Congratulations to Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden, who’ve edited the volume with such care and rigour. 👏
The latest addition to the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social is now out! Willy Russell’s classic hit ‘Blood Brothers’ with a smart and insightful new introduction from editor Rebecca Hillman. 👏
More about the series (which I co-edit) here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
More about the series (which I co-edit) here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
March 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The latest addition to the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social is now out! Willy Russell’s classic hit ‘Blood Brothers’ with a smart and insightful new introduction from editor Rebecca Hillman. 👏
More about the series (which I co-edit) here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
More about the series (which I co-edit) here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...
On Sunday, as light fades to dusk in the hallowed week of the Ides of March, the statue on the roof of the London Palladium raises her staff and summons Luna, the moon goddess, to the delight of applauding crowds across the capital. ✨👏👏✨
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
On Sunday, as light fades to dusk in the hallowed week of the Ides of March, the statue on the roof of the London Palladium raises her staff and summons Luna, the moon goddess, to the delight of applauding crowds across the capital. ✨👏👏✨
I should have posted this a while back but … the latest issue of JCDE is out! It’s a great pleasure to be on the editorial team of this journal and there’s a strong line up of essays and reviews in this new issue! 👌✨
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
March 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I should have posted this a while back but … the latest issue of JCDE is out! It’s a great pleasure to be on the editorial team of this journal and there’s a strong line up of essays and reviews in this new issue! 👌✨
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
It’s 20 years since Howard Barker published his bracing polemic on theatre and death, and the necessity of tragedy in a culture of relentless death denial. It’s a wonderful read: taut, austere, a vision of the inexhaustible theatrical image.
February 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s 20 years since Howard Barker published his bracing polemic on theatre and death, and the necessity of tragedy in a culture of relentless death denial. It’s a wonderful read: taut, austere, a vision of the inexhaustible theatrical image.
Rainy day but gorgeous view @royalholloway.bsky.social on way to a meeting. 🙌
February 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rainy day but gorgeous view @royalholloway.bsky.social on way to a meeting. 🙌
Here we see the incursion of yellow into a landscape of grey, with the assistance of orange. This is usually the first sign of spring in Clapham Junction.
February 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Here we see the incursion of yellow into a landscape of grey, with the assistance of orange. This is usually the first sign of spring in Clapham Junction.
Royal Holloway is at its best when the order and symmetry of its architecture meet rolling clouds and a wuthering sky.
@royalholloway.bsky.social
@royalholloway.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Royal Holloway is at its best when the order and symmetry of its architecture meet rolling clouds and a wuthering sky.
@royalholloway.bsky.social
@royalholloway.bsky.social
Rain and reflections outside Founder’s Building. Love this tree! @royalholloway.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Rain and reflections outside Founder’s Building. Love this tree! @royalholloway.bsky.social
Ah yes, it's 12th January. The anniversary of Samuel and Elisabeth Pepys' famed battle of the red-hot tongs (before making up and chatting in bed till late at night). Very sadly, Elizabeth died later that year, 1669, of typhoid.
January 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ah yes, it's 12th January. The anniversary of Samuel and Elisabeth Pepys' famed battle of the red-hot tongs (before making up and chatting in bed till late at night). Very sadly, Elizabeth died later that year, 1669, of typhoid.
Much to admire in ‘Nosferatu’: the crepuscular world of ‘medieval devilry’ in first contact with the ‘gaseous light of science’; the optics of icy monochrome ruptured by blistering intensities of flame; Nosferatu as infernal & internal, monster without & shadow within. And follow the money! 👏👏
January 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Much to admire in ‘Nosferatu’: the crepuscular world of ‘medieval devilry’ in first contact with the ‘gaseous light of science’; the optics of icy monochrome ruptured by blistering intensities of flame; Nosferatu as infernal & internal, monster without & shadow within. And follow the money! 👏👏
‘Hiemal’ - of or relating to winter, wintry.
Hiemal light, a quality of clarity and stillness generated by cold; the Thames in Richmond.
Hiemal light, a quality of clarity and stillness generated by cold; the Thames in Richmond.
January 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
‘Hiemal’ - of or relating to winter, wintry.
Hiemal light, a quality of clarity and stillness generated by cold; the Thames in Richmond.
Hiemal light, a quality of clarity and stillness generated by cold; the Thames in Richmond.