ET Cetera is the English Theater Company of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Lausanne) and UNIL (University of Lausanne).

Our company is based in Lausanne, Switzerland and we act in English. The multicultural aspect of our projects is very important to us.

Each year, the company puts on one play in April and May. We perform in theatre festivals in Lausanne and around Switzerland.

Every rehearsal is based around a fundamental block of theatre. We explore enunciating through intense lip synch battles, get comfortable with movement with our spirited dancing, and get accustomed with making fool of ourselves alongside improvisation. We like to focus on character building and finding our character’s voice. At every rehearsal, comedians get more acquainted with their character and learn how to bring them to life and onto the stage.

ET Cetera aims to create a safe space where fellow thespians can come together and escape through the art of theatre. We aspire to make you travel to wondrous places by means of thought-provoking theatre.

Each theatre project is an occasion to come together in an environment of learning that is built on trust, mutual respect and an ever-lasting love for drama.

“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”

— Martha Graham.

“I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

— Arthur Miller.

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

— Oscar Wilde.

“If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper”

— Sanford Meisner