EXHIBITION
Synopsis
A successful artist who has made “art out of her pain” is about to unveil her newest and boldest work to date, but before she does, she brings together her estranged siblings for a sneak peak of the exhibit.
This is a personal dark Irish play that attempts to understand the agony and devastation of growing up with an alcoholic mother, yet also looks to comprehend the pain of what it is to be an alcoholic mother. It also analyses the direct negative impact on the relationships of those that grow up within the same toxic household and aspires to show there is always hope to rebuild relationships no matter how fractured.
Exhibition is a work by Derek Masterson, an award-winning Irish playwright, screenwriter, and poet with fourteen staged productions to his name. Even before its stage debut, the play garnered significant recognition. In December 2021, Exhibition received the Runner-Up prize in the DLI/ADCI Playwriting Competition. This was followed by winning the prestigious Scriptwriting & Co. Posterity Award (Stage) in Bath, U.K., in April 2022.
After much anticipation, Exhibition made its highly successful debut in Autumn 2023, with performances at the Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire and the Whale Theatre in Greystones. Following the success of its debut, the production returned for a second run at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin’s Temple Bar.
