From July 14th to August 8th, 2025

Dear friends, 

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Theatre No Theatre is pleased to announce that Thomas Richards, assisted by Theatre No Theatre members, will be holding a workshop entitled Threads of Creation 2025: An Intensive Summer Workshop in Pontedera, Italy. This course for actors, directors, students, and those interested in the practical knowledge of the performing arts will be held from July 14th to August 8th, 2025.

The workshop will strive to unearth the creative potentialities of each participant through work on the relations between precision and organicity, tradition and individual work, as well working on action, movement, rhythm, text development, composition, singing, and the living voice.

During the workshop, the participants will come in contact with the basic principles of Mr. Richards’ approach to theatre creation. As well, the participants will take part in singing sessions exploring an approach to work on song and action that has been at the heart of Richards’ research for more than 35 years. Such practice explores the potential impact that the melodic and rhythmical qualities of a given song can have on the person who sings.

The workshop will also be open to a limited number of people wishing to observe the processes for the whole period of the program.

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If you are interested in participating, please send your CV and motivation letter to workshop@theatrenotheatre.com. Participants for Threads of Creation will be selected based on these documents. There is no required format for your CV or motivation letter.

You may choose to apply as a participant in either the full 4-week course (July 14th – August 8th) or a 2-week session (July 14th – July 25th or July 28th – August 8th).

If you prefer to join as an observer, you can attend for 4, 3, 2, or 1 week(s).

In your email, please indicate whether you are applying as a participant or an observer and specify the duration and dates (in the case of participating for 2 weeks) for which you wish to attend.

Please note that we will close applications once we reach full capacity.

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The cost for participation is:

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1.500 euros for 4 weeks

900 euros for 2 weeks

The cost for observing is:

600 euros for 4 weeks

500 euros for 3 weeks

400 euros for 2 weeks

250 euros for 1 week