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  • Paul Higgins presents

    Curious Earthling

    Fri 17 Mar, 9pm
    Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
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    How to escape alcohol, death, imprisonment, and bathing in the kitchen. Actor and writer Paul Higgins wonders if our brains can be unmangled.

    Paul Higgins appears regularly on screen and stage, as well as writing for the theatre.

    Paul's screen work includes Slow Horses, The Ipcress File, Line of Duty, Apostle, Victoria and Abdul, The Thick of It, In the Loop, and Utopia. Recent stage work includes Local Hero, Memorial Device, The Meaning of Zong, The Doctor, and Aristocrats.

    Curious Earthling is a story of growing up in a 'stable for labourers'; training to be a priest; taking the night bus to London; becoming an actor, a writer, a father, a fitness fanatic and an addict. It is a chronicle of early death, self-destruction, oblivion, freefalling and falling free. He's trying to be funny, too.

    Content Notice
    Running Time 50 min
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Assistance dogs welcome
    "Paul Higgins is fantastic, with a tour-de-force performance alone on stage for an hour and a half, grabbing the audience immediately he takes the stage and not letting their attention drop until he's walked them out of the venue at the end"
    British Theatre Guide (This Is Memorial Device
    "Higgins is excellent"
    The Guardian (This Is Memorial Device)
    "Higgins paces the stage in the manner of someone telling a story he is compelled to tell, audience or no"
    The Stage (This Is Memorial Device)

    “It means so much to be working at CPT, it’s such a good opportunity to work in a professional environment at my age. I didn’t think that was ever going to happen and it means the world to me. It’s really going to help prepare me for my future and where I want to go”

    CYT participant and Camden student