Commonwealth Festival of the Arts programme

This is the programme for the Commonwealth Festival of the Arts in 1986. This was the first international Arts festival that Emily of Emerald Hill was performed at; making this the first Singapore based and Singapore written play to be performed overseas.Stella Kon is an award-winning Singapore playwright whose most important work was the 1983 one-woman play, Emily of Emerald Hill. She is also a descendent of two prominent Peranakan philanthropists, Tan Tock Seng and Dr Lim Boon Keng.