THE Brewery Arts Centre is set for an autumn feast of entertainment with an eclectic mix of theatre, music and comedy coming to Kendal.

The highlight of the Brewery’s theatre programme is the return of the Roundabout big top tent which will be setting up on the Abbot Hall lawn for four days of cutting-edge performances from Paines Plough Theatre Company (October 6 to 9).

Known in the industry as "the National Theatre of new writing", the company is in great demand and will be performing three new plays along with a variety of spoken word and comedy shows.

Back in the Brewery theatre, autumn promises an exciting line-up of contemporary, classic and comedy productions. Literature fans should look out for Blackeyed Theatre’s adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror masterpiece Frankenstein (November 25) while award-winning comedy duo LipService Theatre will explore the world of female writers with Mr Darcy Loses the Plot (October 20). As Jane Austen is secretly dreaming up Darcy, a door squeaks and the author hastily hides her work, leaving Darcy to embroider his own storyline as his creator stitches her doilies.

In stark contrast, the issue of conflict in the Middle East comes to the fore in The Collector (November 4) a gripping tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq by Kathryn Barker Productions.

Comedy fans will be pleased to see an array of comedians heading to Kendal with new shows honed at August’s Edinburgh Festival.

The Boy with Tape on his Face’s wordless show has seen him become a comedy sensation in the UK but this year he has been wowing crowds in the States with a TV appearance on America’s Got Talent - a clip of which became a global Youtube sensation. He’ll be opening the Brewery’s autumn comedy programme with his new show Tape Face (September 10).

Popular TV and radio broadcaster Mark Radcliffe (October 28) will be swapping the airwaves for the stage with a new show Should You Be Interested, which takes a dry look at his life in the music industry.

There will be political laughs aplenty from Brewery favourite Mark Watson’s hilarious new show The Red Shed (October 23). Set in Wakefield Labour Club, the first venue Mark ever performed in, the performance is part theatre, part stand-up, journalism and activism, and is the story of the battle for hope and the survival of a community.

The Brewery’s music programme features the usual mix of genres including Americana from Cahalen Morrison & Eli West (September 10) and The Stray Birds (October 8); jazz from Grammy-winning New Orleans trumpeter Terence Blanchard and the Inner City Ensemble (September 18), and folk music from Northumbrian pipe star Kathryn Tickell and The Side (October 20).

For more, visit www.breweryarts.co.uk