THE ACADEMY – NATIONAL COLLEGE OF THEATRE IN LIMOUSIN
in Saint-Priest Taurion

The Academy was established ten years ago on the initiative of Silviu Purcarete and Paul Chiribut.

On January 1-st 2008 it became an autonomic institution. Currently led by Patrick le Mauff and Pierre Pradinas, from its very beginnings the Academy executes its own author’s curriculum the essence of which is to produce performances under the supervision of invited directors (such as Jacques Lasalle).

Thanks to establishing the cooperation with the University in Limoges the students of acting are also given the status of Humanities Department and hence the opportunity to obtain both the theatre school’s and the university dilomas.

Every year the Academy admits 12-14 candidates, who – in the framework of 3-year education – attend lectures and trainings in various disciplines, such as: work with voice, work with body, improvisation, circus art, film, puppet theatre, commedia dell’arte, Elizabethan theatre.

Co-operating with Théâtre de l’Union and National Drama Centre, the Academy provides opportunity for its students to improve their acting workshop on the stage of a theatre.