The story begins with the 1964 Swiss National Exhibition, which was held in Lausanne on the shores of the lake and on land reclaimed from the water. A student of the Bauhaus, painter, sculptor, designer, graphic designer, architect... Max Bill created the Educate and Create pavilion for Expo 64 by implementing his principle of synthesis of the arts on the basis of a 5 x 5 metre grid and a modular metal structure. In the centre is the Arts Court with contemporary sculptures, in dialogue with the theatre hall, whose stage cage, covered with metal panels, is the most prominent element. The director Charles Apothéloz, director of the Centre dramatique romand in Lausanne, is the curator of the Théâtre de l'Expo where he is creating in French Dürrenmatt's play Hercules and the Augean Stables, a corrosive comedy about the Swiss political system. He is mobilizing to ensure that the theater is not dismantled at the end of the Expo. He then used it as a rehearsal space before setting up the Drama Centre there in 1972, which became the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne.

In 2023, the large theater hall, Salle 64 Charles Apothéloz reopens after its renovation led by Pont12 architects: the stage cage has become symmetrical, its machinery automated, the artists' dressing rooms move upstairs with a view of the lake. On the public side, the hall has gained in height and depth, it now has 430 seats and spaces optimized for the technical control rooms. The chosen seat model Torso by Jezet is executed in different centre to centre sizes and in several executions in relation to the fixation, there are fixed seats, removable ones and foldable seats to fit in a boxed in Lotus-model.