Mo, Lab and Wallis, Jillian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5004-9262 (2025) "THE GARDENER" A play by Lab Ky Mo. [Play, Short Story or Poetry]

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Abstract

“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 10

Item Type:	Play, Short Story or Poetry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	The Gardner, Greenwich Theatre, Greenwich Studio Theatre
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > Centre for Creative Futures Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Design and Creative Industries
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2025 14:38
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/51759

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