Jonathan Larson's Rent to receive immersive production at world's oldest working paper mill

Jonathan Larson's Rent is to be revived in an immersive theatre production at the world's oldest working paper mill in July.

Staged at the Frogmore Paper Mill in Apsley, Hertfordshire, the experience will involve audiences following the actors around the building.

Larson's 1996 Tony Award-winning musical is loosely based on Puccini's La Boheme and follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished artists struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. It features the songs "Take Me Or Leave Me", "Seasons of Love" and "La Vie Boheme".

Vivo D'Arte production follows on from their similar take on Jason Robert Brown's Parade last year, and will run from 10 to 21 of July.

Casting is yet to be announced.