This year again, the Caylus Festival and the Beaulieu Abbey Festival are joining forces to present this new creation. 

«SAMĀ’, the exiled light could have been a symphony, an opera, a concerto, a play, a ballet, a fresco,… but no…, SAMĀ’ is a living, organic, nomadic work, exiled in a world that has become a hallucinatory and hallucinating theatre of humanity in wandering and out of breath, SAMĀ’ is a cry of rage and distress at the same time, lost in the chaos of the innumerable quarrels of buffoons of all kinds, of politicians engaging in communication, of communicators engaging in politics, and of fanatics terrorising the world.

But SAMĀ’ is also and above all a declaration of love for all that makes humans capable of living together on Earth, of progressing, creating, laughing, crying, loving, whether they are from the East or the West, from Nadir to Zephyr!

SAMĀ’ invokes the reason and wisdom of the world by using archaic and primary mediums, 

SAMĀ’ invokes the intoxication of life through the trance of ageless, egoless shamans,

SAMĀ’ invokes the power of words through deconstructed speech, leaving to the rare texts of the authors summoned or evoked – Rumi, Nostradamus & Claudel, immortal mystics with a pen chiselled from steel that etches words into the elements of air, water, fire, earth and ether –,

SAMĀ’ calls upon our consciences and our senses...

SAMĀ’ is like an explanation of the world (the question on which all philosophers of all time have worked and still work and will always work), an attempt to put into perspective a better way of living together, East and West, …

SAMĀ’ is a waking dream, the utopia of thinking that we have here mere tiny fractions of a matter which unveils a little corner of this secret through this exiled light!»

Pierre Thilloy