I have been a huge fan of the musical Rent for as long as I can remember. From singing "Seasons Of Love" with my drama friends as a teenager, to watching the film adaptation obsessively and learning every single word to "La Vie Boheme", I was obsessed. And when I found out that it had closed in the West End 10 years ago and I would probably never get the chance to watch it, I was gutted. That was until summer last year when I saw that there would be a 10th anniversary performance in London. The tickets were booked before I could even tell my friend we were going.

And no later than I had booked the first set of tickets, I found out they were going to take it on tour and it would be coming to my favourite local theatre, the Lighthouse, Poole. Of course I jumped at the opportunity to take my mum and introduce her to one of my favourite musicals of all.