7 Day Creative Residency Theatre, Nature & Shared Living in Italy

What do you do while you wait?
Not for a bus, not for a meeting, but for the permission to finally move, to finally become, to finally be yourself?

This is the question at the heart of the 17th edition of the Assisi Summer Residency, organized by Io Non Parlo Sono Parlato.

For one week in August, up to 16 participants gather in the ancient hills of Umbria to work through one of theatre’s most enduring masterpieces, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, using the unique lens of Transactional Theatre.

The retreat does not promise a resolution. It offers something rarer: a Threshold.
Vladimir and Estragon are on the road to a permanent threshold.
They wait.
And that waiting is the purest form of threshold theatre ever staged.
Godot is not an answer.
In Transactional Analysis terms, Godot is the script, the decision made by someone else, long ago, that keeps us frozen, waiting for permission that may never come.
But it is also the protective pattern that carried us to where we are now.

“Sometimes I feel it coming all the same. Then I go all queer. How shall I say? Relieved and at the same time… terrified.” — Vladimir, Act I

This is not just a theatre workshop.
It is a one-week immersive experience in which participants live and work together and explore theatre as a tool for presence, connection, and awareness.
The focus is not on performance alone — it is on the human experience behind it.

Each day includes:
physical and vocal training
improvisation and group exercises
relational work and listening practices
collective creation

Living together is an essential part of the process.
Meals, conversations, and daily life become part of the experience.

The residency takes place in the Umbrian countryside, offering a quiet and natural environment that supports focus and openness.

**NOTE: Before registration, we arrange a short introductory conversation with the course facilitator to align expectations, explain the participation format, and ensure the residency is a good fit for everyone. A form will be sent upon reservation.