Attracting an audience at this time of the year is hard enough without anyone adding extra obstacles. Or perhaps to be more accurate, with little or no help from those whose theatre you are hiring.

The start of Rent, which Backstage Productions is presenting all this week at the Olympus Theatre on Filton College's WISE Campus, was delayed because people who were known to be coming had not yet arrived. In the end, quite rightly, the show started just a few minutes late, leaving the latecomers to sneak in.

The reason that some of those attending were late was that they could not find the venue and wound up in the wrong place.

For some reason or other, the powers that be seem very reluctant to place any signs either outside, or for that matter, within the campus to inform you where the Olympus Theatre is situated.

Once you know to follow the signs for WISE and ignore any that lead you towards Filton High School or Filton College, all is well except, of course, that the actual entrance looks as if it is about to lead you onto an industrial estate or business park.

Even after you have found a place to park – no easy feat in a car park full of football enthusiasts who have come to enjoy the fine facilities on the campus – there is nothing on the main building to indicate that there is a theatre in its walls.

Like any theatrical space, hiring the Olympus Theatre is not cheap and it seems unfair therefore that those in charge of the site seem so determined to hide their light under a bushel and not encourage people to attend performances in their theatre.

Rent is Backstage Productions' first show in five years, not that you would realise that from the smooth way in which Vicki Klein's production swings along. With Julian Edgell firmly in charge of the musical content, this modern rock version of La Boheme is a worthy successor to a long line of interesting shows which have gone before.