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"THE GARDENER" A play by Lab Ky Mo
No full text“THE GARDENER”
A new play by Lab Ky Mo
Starring Aidan Cheng, Jules Chan, Jessie Baek & Lobo Chan.
Directed by Lab Ky Mo and Jillian Wallis
Strapline:
“Dead plants don’t make money. Nothing dead ever makes money.”
Logline:
A boy is smuggled over from Vietnam only to be locked inside a house on his own and forced to look after a houseful of cannabis plants as THE GARDENER.
Synopsis:
THE GARDENER is a new tragi-comedy by Lab Ky Mo which examines the trafficking of illegal Vietnamese migrants into the UK to work on Cannabis farms, often as domestic slaves. When a boy is smuggled over from Vietnam, he finds himself locked inside a house in suburban England and forced to work as an urban ‘gardener’ – to look after and feed a house full of cannabis plants. He sees no one other than his minder whose job it is to look after and feed the boy – with nothing more imaginative than instant noodles. When the boy has the temerity to complain about his poor diet, it not only questions the dynamic of their prisoner/warder relationship but it also precipitates a chain of events that ultimately threatens their entire, closeted world.
Details:
Greenwich Theatre, London 21-22 June, 7.30pm
https://greenwichtheatre.org.uk/events/thegardener/
Running time: 1hr 1
Five Tanks
No full textThis is a play written and directed by Lab Ky Mo, funded by the Arts Council of England, and performed for 3 weeks at Hackney Studio Theatre
"DISPLACED" A photographic Exhibition by LAB KY MO
No full textIn conjunction with REFUGEE WEEK, I present 3 projects focusing on refugees from across Europe. I did not knowingly search out refugee projects to exclusively work on. I only spotted connections and parallels between these three projects after the fact, for this exhibition. Certainly the tragedy of the Essex 39 moved me, as it did many others. However, I am unsure as to why I felt compelled to draw their portraits – maybe it was a way for me to process the unspeakable tragedy. Photographing refugees in Calais, France and Medyka, Poland introduced me to other displaced peoples on the move, this time face to face and in the flesh. Again, I am unsure as to why I felt the urge to take these portraits; I had to travel some distance in order to do so. Seeing these projects side by side makes me reflect on my own origin story – being the child of immigrants, maybe I am drawn to people on the move. Maybe by recording their portraits and stories, I am meditating on my own journey to where I am now
God Speaks Chinese
No full textShort film written and directed by Lab Ky Mo.
Commissioned by Yello Earth Theatre in conjunction with ALRA THEATRE.
Promoting East Asian Actors
Michael Stone Performance Artist
No full textDocumentary on infamous Northern Irish paramiltary Michael Stone. Written and directed by Lab Ky Mo.
Funded by Northern Ireland Film Council
Rehearsed reading of stage play "The Gardener" at "Theatre503"
No full text"The Gardener" is a new play by playwright Lab Ky Mo which examines the trafficking of illegal Vietnamese migrants into the UK to work on Cannabis farms, often as domestic slaves. Funded by the "CREATIVE FUTURES PILOT INVESTMENT FUND" a Rehearsed Reading was staged at "Theatre503" in Battersea to an audience of 40, stimulating debate around trafficking and modern slavery
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