FIVE TANKS - A New Play by British Chinese Writer Lab Ky Mo

FIVE TANKS is a new play written and directed by British Chinese writer Lab Ky Mo, which also features the classically trained British Chinese actor Daniel York. It will show at the Hackney Empire from Tuesday 23rd October until Saturday 10th November.

FIVE TANKS is set on the day a bomb nearly went off on the number 26 bus in Hackney Road, London.

I remember this day, as the complex that my studio was in at the time was right next to the stopped bus, and we later had to evacuate. Luckily, I’ve no dramatic tale to tell, but I’m interested nonetheless in this highly relevant play to Londoners.

More information including dates and venue below…

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Five Tanks is based on a true story - the call centre that stays open even during a terrorist attack, to finish government opinion polls! All the actors in the show and the director have worked at this call centre at some point. Lab was called in to work on the day of the failed bus bomb on Hackney Road; one of his colleagues had been on the bus. They watched as hordes of people left work in the City and walked home.

Five Tanks is a timely and bitterly amusing play examining the multi-racial tensions prevalent in London today, heightened as they are by the politically-unstable climate in which we live.

Five Tanks plays at:
Hackney Empire
Studio Theatre, 291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ
Dates : Tuesday 23rd October until Saturday 10th November
Time : 7.30pm.
Ticket prices : £12 (£9 concessions)
Box Office : 020 8985 2424
Website : www.hackneyempire.co.uk

The writer and director Lab Ky Mo is a film and TV writer who is making the transition to theatre, and his 2003 film NINE DEAD GAY GUYS was described as ‘the most shocking film at Cannes‘ in The Observer. He teaches Screenwriting at London College of Communications - a course taken by every aspiring screenwriter in London - where he is an inspiration to and a strong influence on the next generation of filmmakers. He’s also Chinese and born and raised in Belfast, then won a scholarship to LA Film School.