Du côté de la vie
17 – 29 July 2018 at 12h40
Théâtre de l'Adresse « Diffusion », 2 avenue de la Trillade, Avignon
Philippe Goudard – Avignon OFF
Between laughter and emotion, Philippe Goudard tells the story of the young country doctor and emergency physician he was before choosing the circus. The text Pascal Lainé wrote for him brings in Mikhail Bulgakov and his “A Young Doctor’s Notebook”, and reveals the hidden, intimate side of the patients of these two doctors, separated by a century but united by their practice “on the side of life”.
A country doctor shares with the audience memories of his early days, and the doubts and joys of gradually discovering himself. Into this intimate exchange with the audience he invites, across time, Doctor Mikhail Bulgakov who, in 1917, fresh from his studies in Kiev, became the young head doctor of a country hospital lost in the snows of Russia, where he learned as much about his profession as about himself.
Philippe Goudard performs Du Côté De La Vie by Pascal Lainé, inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov.