RENT

Name: RENT
Start: 2025-07-06T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-08T21:50:00+00:00
Location: Salisbury Arts centre

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Next: Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Runs until Saturday, 8 November 2025 (See all dates)

Time: 19:30 - 21:50
Venue: Salisbury Arts centre, Salisbury, SP1 3UT
Price: Tickets from £16

An inspiring musical about friends and artists struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS and most of all, love.

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An inspiring musical about friends and artists struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS and most of all, love.

Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.

This is theatre at its best – exuberant, passionate and joyous.