Title
Emily of Emerald Hill - Leow Puay Tin East West Center programme
Year/Period
1987
Region
Hawaii
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 21.0 x 16.5 cm
Accession No.
2014-01157
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Stella Kon
This is a programme from a production of Emily of Emerald Hill by Leow Puay Tin held at the East West Center of Hawaii in 1987. Puay Tin was the first actress to portray the title character of Emily Gan in Malaysia in 1984, a year before Dr Margaret Chan, the first Singaporean.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.
