The award-winning rock musical RENT is on its way to Hamilton's Riverlea Theatre stage for a three-week season. Based on Puccini's opera La Bohème, the musical centres on a group of young artists and musicians of varying sexualities struggling to survive and create in New York's Alphabet City in the last days of the Boheminan East Village, under the shadow of AIDS. RENT is considered revolutionary for bringing controversial topics and counterculture to the traditional theatre and is credited with increasing the popularity of musical theatre in the younger generation. GayNZ.com reviewer Larry Jenkins says the show "speaks to a post-AIDS 21st century just as pointedly today as it did in the wake of the virus, after ten years of decimation -- serving to remind us that it ain't all over yet." Directed by Lawrie Johnson, the Hamilton season of RENT begins on Saturday, 18th August, running through to Saturday, 8th September. Booking details are available on the link below. Ref: GayNZ.com, Riverlea Theatre (m)
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First published: Wednesday, 1st August 2007 - 6:13pm