Puppet State Theatre: Jo Tomalin talks to Richard Medrington about Leaf by Niggle, a one person storytelling show, based on JRR Tolkien’s short story.
In 1939 Tolkien was despairing of ever bringing his great work The Lord of the Rings to a conclusion. One morning he woke up with the tale of Niggle, a struggling artist on a curious journey, complete in his mind and wrote it down. The story is often seen as an allegory of the writer’s own creative process.
