Mark utilizes his role as storyteller to distance himself emotionally from the narrative. Mark is also the self-appointed narrator and the only character who repeatedly steps out of the story to break the fourth wall and speak directly to the audience. The characters do not overcome all their problems, but those that they do overcome provide them with a sustaining sense of community and the will to endure.Mark, who is an aspiring film maker, provides the framework for the musical by filming the group members’ lives as an unscripted documentary. During the course of the play, the characters protest the landlord's plans to evict them and face other obstacles that are more difficult to fight, including drug addiction, AIDS, and troubled relationships. The fast-paced production moves through a collection of vignettes that are united by a rent strike against the landlord of the run-down tenement where some of the characters live. It opens on Christmas Eve and chronicles the characters' lives over the course of one year. Larson places his play in New York City a century later than Puccini's work.
Rent is loosely based on the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, an opera that focuses on the experiences of bohemian artists living in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century.
It was published by William Morrow in 1997. Still, in its examination of the lifestyles of the young men and women who inhabit the slums of the Village, the play becomes a celebration of life and the heroic struggle to survive. His death made the play that much more poignant in its focus on the diseased and drug-addicted young people of New York City's East Village. Tragically, Jonathan Larson could not appreciate the overwhelming success of his play, since he had died on the evening of the final dress rehearsal. When the musical Rent first appeared off Broadway in 1996, it immediately became a hit.
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