RENT

Nov 27, 2020

2h 15m

★ 8.0

Overview

Loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, Rent features book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre brings a new live production of Rent directly to your home with this streamed performance filmed during the live run.

Genres

Music

Drama

Production Companies

Hope Mill Theatre

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Cast

Mark

Blake Patrick Anderson

Roger

Tom Francis

Maureen

Millie O'Connell

Benny

Ahmed Hamad

Collins

Dom Hartley-Harris

Mimi

Maiya Quansah-Breed

Angel

Alex Thomas-Smith

Joanne

Jocasta Almgill

Featured Ensemble

Isaac Hesketh

Featured Ensemble

Allie Daniel

Featured Ensemble

Kayla Carter

Featured Ensemble

Bethany Terry

The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four-poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness and sorrow, through good times and bad, through childbirth, parenthood, and the eventual sadness from the absence of their children. In the end, they face the future together, while remembering their past.

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