Directed by Alexander Zeldin, The Other Place is a contemporary reading of Antigone that carves a tragic family drama out of everyday life. On the anniversary of their father’s death, two estranged sisters confront memories, renovation works and an uncle determined to move on. With Jerry Killick among the cast and a strikingly realistic scenography, the production exposes hidden violences, irreconcilable trajectories and raw emotional fractures in a finely observed, tense staging.

In English.

Festival Electron, a cornerstone of Switzerland’s electronic cultures for over twenty years, presents a nocturnal immersive experience that transforms performance spaces into expansive dancefloors. The programme balances cutting‑edge DJs and live electronic artists, blending dense rhythmic sequences with immersive visual design and lighting. Expect sustained pulses, spatial soundscapes and a collective, high-energy atmosphere that prioritizes sonic depth and club-like continuity. The artistic focus is on rhythm, texture and sensory immersion.

Focus Jeune Création brings together a new generation of Romand artists over two weeks, presenting five bold and hybrid performances that blur theatre, performance and live art. The program explores emergent writing and stage practices— from plateau-based text to pieces rooted in the real—offering layered, often indisciplinary approaches that question formats and invent languages for a transforming world. Accompanying meetings and discussions extend the works and open insight into creative processes.

Directed by Célie Pauthe and adapted from Mathieu Belezi’s novel, C’était notre terre is a five‑performer theatre piece that stages the collapse of a family in northern Algeria during the war of independence. Kamel Khélif’s paintings infuse the mise en scène, confronting the violent logics of colonial rule. The ensemble navigates memory, rupture and generational trauma through a choral narrative performed in French and Kabyle, with French surtitles.

Radio Live – La Relève presents a cross-disciplinary performance-installation that sketches the portrait of an engaged young generation. In a scenographic installation blending radio atmospheres and documentary, the piece investigates memory and shifting identities through a hybrid interplay of sound, image and spontaneous speech. Participants from Bosnia, Syria, Ukraine, Rwanda, India and France share testimonies; performers alternate (Martin France, Amir Hassan, Yannick Kamanzi, Oksana Leuta, Hala Rajab, Sumeet Samos, Ines Tanovic). The staging is intimate and investigative in tone.

In French.

Written and directed by Wajdi Mouawad, Le Serment d’Europe transforms Greek myth—Médéa and the Phoenician princess Europe—into a contemporary tragedy about silence and the transmission of trauma. A sparse, almost bare stage hosts an international cast who alternate in French, Greek, English and Russian (surtitles), weaving past and present into a tense, intimate drama. The production privileges austere design, concentrated performances and a ritual intensity that probes memory, guilt and complicity.