Scenes from Rent – A Staged Performance at Leicester Curve

The performance will play both British Sign Language and English

Jonathan Larson’s acclaimed rock opera is a celebration of community in the face of adversity in this bilingual workshop performance as part of the New Work Festival 2024.

Scenes from RENT – A Staged Performance brings together a selection of key scenes and hit songs from the show, including ‘Seasons of Love’ and ‘La Vie Boheme’, to explore the musical through the lens of the isolation and prejudice faced by deaf and hearing communities during the 1980s AIDS crisis.

Performed in British Sign Language and English, Lilac Yosiphon (Oh What A Lovely War) directs an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing actors in this exciting reimagining of one of musical theatre’s most beloved titles.

The cast includes Nadeem Islam as Mark, Melad Hamidi singing for Mark, Mia Ward as Maureen, Annabelle Terry singing for Maureen, Cherie Gordon as Joanne, Charlotte St Croix singing for Joanne, Chris Fonseca as Collins, Kofi Dennis singing for Collins, Adam Jay Price as Roger, Alim Jadavji as Angel, Chaya Gupta as Mimi and Nitai Levi as Benjamin Coffin III

Book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, musical arrangements by Steve Skinner, original concepts/additional lyrics by Billy Aronson, music supervision and additional arrangements by Tim Weil, dramaturg Lynn Thomson, director Lilac Yosiphon, musical director Ben Garnett, choreographer and movement Director Stacey McCarthy, BSL consultant and creative associate Deepa Shastri, lighting designer Rhys Parker, sound designer Angel Rossell De Pablos, visual/narrative support Eleanor Field, creative captions Edalia Day

RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and New York Theatre Workshop.

Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International

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