Samadhi

What price would you pay to free your soul? Samadhi: Birth of Kabandha enters into the heavenly realm of Svargaloka to gauge whether chaos is an essential ingredient in the recipe of liberation. It challenges the suffocating silence of the “model minority”: the toxic sludge that grows into a monster. It asks if the cycle of rebirth can be shattered, if martyrdom a form of surrender, and if order itself is the prison.

Drawn from the Ramayana epic, the story follows Vishvasu, a celestial musician granted a boon of immortality, who must disrupt the divine order and make enemies along the way for the realm to grow. But is it worth it? Blending epic myth with modern alienation, Samadhi: Birth of Kabandha confronts conformity, complicity, and the perilous pursuit of transcendence.

Credits

Aditya Singh – Vishvasu

Content disclosures

Strobe, loud and sudden noises

Emergence Festival 2026

Emergence is a festival of new work from the graduating artists of the MFA Acting/Directing Classical and Contemporary Text programme.

Emergence 2026 will include a range of provocative live performances and gripping short films presented across four days in January, returning to Glasgow’s iconic Centre for Contemporary Arts and surrounding venues.

These creative projects are the result of what can happen when artists are given a small budget and autonomy to respond to the provocation: what is the future of theatre and film?