KENDAL'S Brewery Art Centre is hosting an enchanting adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle, a short story about a painter written at the same time as Tolkien penned the Lord of the Rings. Surrounded by ladders, bicycles, easels and heirlooms, Richard Medrington recounts Tolkien’s miniature masterpiece, with music specially composed by Scottish folk star Karine Polwart. Staged on Saturday, May 14 (7pm). Brewery box office 01539-725133.