by Patrice Chaplin

A single painting sells for $122 million. In an age where value is calculated in likes, clicks, and net worth, Edvard Munch’s The Scream has been reduced to the most expensive painting in history, instantly recognisable, endlessly reproduced and largely emptied of its original anguish. Sessions begins with a provocation: what happens when the artist behind the image returns, not to claim his legacy, but to ask whether anyone ever truly listened?

Imagining Munch summoned back from the afterlife for a therapy session, the play places him opposite a therapist-in-training navigating her own uncertainties. As the conversation unfolds, Munch confronts grief, obsession and the emotional cost of a life spent translating pain into art. The encounter becomes a collision between a wounded past and a distracted present, exposing how fame can preserve an image while erasing the person who created it. By turning the therapy room into a space of reckoning, SESSIONS holds a mirror to a culture that consumes suffering as content and asks what it might mean, now, to really see.

Charity Number:1077637

Entry fee: £10.00

Contact details: s.ezen@btinternet.com and Patrice Chaplin: patricechaplin@yahoo.co.uk

Sessions, a play about Edvard Munch by Patrice Chaplin, will be staged at the Playground Theatre in London on March 20.

A special reading of the play will take place on March 3 at RSH, introduced by Sylvia Franke and performed by members of the cast. Playwright Patrice Chaplin will be in attendance, along with her close friend Tove Frisvold, a descendant of Edvard Munch.