The 2024 edition of “Bottega XNL-Fare Teatro”, the High Theatrical Training course of the Cinema and Theater section of
THE ANSWERS TO THE NOTICE
In just under a month, over two hundred young actors and actresses from all over Italy responded to the national call launched in March (in a well-attended meeting with the scholar Luciano Canfora and Russo Alesi himself).
An important confirmation of the great interest aroused by the project in both quantitative (the very high number of applications) and qualitative terms: the artistic level of the candidates is in fact particularly high, to the point that the director and teacher Fausto Russo Alesi asked to be able to expand the number of participants compared to the twenty originally expected.
THE SELECTED ACTORS
The group of selected actors and actresses is made up of 23 young people aged 23 to 39, with an average age of 30, all graduated from established theater schools in Italy, such as the Scuola del Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the Civica “Paolo Grassi” Theater School of Milan, the “Silvio d’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, the “Nico Pepe” Civic Academy of Dramatic Arts of Udine or the Academy of Ancient Drama Art of Syracuse. Coming from different regions (mainly from Lombardy, Lazio and Piedmont), they arrived at XNL in recent days to take part in this path which makes Piacenza a point of reference for theater training. Bottega Ancient Theater of Veleia on 21, 22 and 23 June.
