In this magical, musical show about trees, we take a look at these strange and familiar creatures these strange and familiar living creatures, these great elders whose history is so closely linked to our own, whom we love, ignore, deify, honour, fear and destroy. And whose vitality for our species has been particularly apparent in recent decades.

On 10 December 1997, Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill, a young American environmental activist, climbed into a giant thousand-year-old sequoia to save it from the chainsaws. save it from the chainsaws, only to come down three winters later. While her body and mind are transformed by contact with the and this prodigious way of life, the Compagnie Forestière continues to continues its work of felling the last representatives of the great primary forest.

We tell its story because it inspires us and invites us to explore another time of the tree. We tell it with music and magical images, because music unfolds its language beyond the human, and the contemplation of magical images changes the way we look at things.

The physical presence on stage of instruments as unusual as the viola da gamba, the cistrum and the theorbo captures the audience and brings them into the presence of an otherness, an antiquity, a strangeness; it opens up an imaginary world that fraternises with that of the trees, and marvellously accompanies the sung and spoken human voice.

In the course of this show, we explore the repertoire of illustrious and anonymous composers of the 17th and 18th centuries in England, and perform learned, popular and improvised music.