For one night only, the Karma Supper Club Series steps into the world of acclaimed playwright Samuel Beckett, as theatre and creative fine dining converge amid the Tuscan hills this July.
Hosted at Karma Borgo di Colleoli in partnership with J. Productions, the evening opens with The Waiting Table: an intimate six-course supper designed by Head Chef Maurizio. Each dish takes its cue from the absurdist tension and tragicomic spirit of Waiting for Godot, paired with regional wines that anchor the meal in Tuscany’s traditions.
After the final course, Members settle in for an exclusive private performance of Beckett’s masterpiece, staged just days before the production’s public Italian premiere at the Volterra International Festival Teatro Romano. This marks the first English-language staging of Godot in Italy in over forty years, a milestone shaped by director Rupert Mason and a cast led by Justin Butcher as Vladimir.
Nearly eighty years after Beckett wrote the play in postwar Paris, its mix of vaudeville humor, Irish banter and existential longing remains startlingly present. Here, literature and live performance blend into something rarer still: a supper that waits for no one, and a play that asks you to stay.
Dinner, drama and two vagrants by a barren tree. A tragicomic Tuscan treat.
