Alone on stage, actor Olivier Saladin, ex-Deschiens, plays a doctor on call overwhelmed by a patient like no other…75 minutes of laughter therapy not to be missed! On view until June 26, 2026 at the Théâtre Montparnasse, in Paris!
He had already donned the coat of Doctor Galvan, 13 years ago at the Théâtre de l’Atelier, in Paris, brilliantly taking on this totally delirious medical fable written by Daniel Pennac and entitled “Former patient of Paris hospitals”. Olivier Saladin takes it back today at the Théâtre Montparnasse with intact energy, and still this madness deployed in the service of a mad hospital race as twisting as it is disconcerting.
Taking on internal medicine!
Olivier Saladin’s delicious narration therefore takes us back to the past of Dr Galvan, then a young intern at the Postel Couperin University Hospital, during a first night shift which he will remember for a long time. The young intern, then obsessed with writing his business card, is confronted with a sick “ who doesn’t feel very well “. An urgent diagnosis is required. Yes but there you go, this patient is really not like the others! Atypical, it is he who leads the dance, accumulating in turn the most serious symptoms, each more confusing than the other, especially when they disappear to give way to new ones.
The ignorant, the ignorant, the ignorant
During this epic night, on his stretcher with carefully oiled wheels, pushed by a panic-stricken Galvan, the patient will exhaust the entire medical profession beyond belief, undermining the knowledge of the most eminent specialists called in turn to his bedside! All the science of internal medicine is reviewed, but in vain: from gastro to dermato, from cardio to neuro, including pneumo! An exhaustive and prestigious catalog that will have to be presented in the morning to the old specialist in the discipline who is going to retire. But this turnaround, you have to see it to believe it, the harder the fall will be and medicine will not emerge from it any better! But shush! A delirious and jubilant medical comedy carried by an inhabited Olivier Saladin who delights us!
“When I think!” When I think of the inky blood I put into myself for him! When I think! When I think of this clown! When I think! When I think that my heart stopped beating ten times during the night! »
And an extract to make your mouth water!
Bernadette Fabregas Gonguet
Photo credit E.N
• The actor Olivier Saladin, guided by Benjamin Guillard in the direction, returns to the Théâtre Montparnasse the “gesticulatory monologue” written by Daniel Pennac (Folio/Gallimard collection) entitled “Former patient of Paris hospitals” From Tuesday to Saturday at 7 p.m. Additional information
