Theater - What a Life - Théâtre L'Escale

With humor and self-deprecating wit, Stéphane Bault recounts his daily life with Parkinson's disease... accompanied by a puppet dog that is as affectionate as it is cheeky.

The man in question, “Le Tremble,” is an actor, puppeteer, and director. At age 50, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

Whether he likes it or not, a new way of approaching daily life becomes necessary. His professional life, his relationships with others, and the pace of the world—which, day after day, inexorably speeds up around him until it makes his head spin.

But that’s without counting on the intervention of “la Blanche,” the family dog—his personal assistant, the one who keeps him from wallowing in self-pity… This unfiltered and uninhibited observer, herself in the front row of the neurodegenerative odyssey, will, with all her energy and impertinent insight, force her “Tremble” to leave the ruts of exhausting and futile complaining and head down the more constructive paths of self-deprecation, resilience, and the richness of what remains to be lived.

*Chienne de vie* is a detached and poetic autobiography. An unrestrained dialogue—from human to dog, from equal to equal—that, with humor, invites characters and audiences alike to follow the paths of determined acceptance: the famous “resilience.”