The Vault: @thisisemeraldgirl an adaptation of Stella Kon’s much-loved play Emily of Emerald Hill. Created by Eugene Koh and Lee Shu Yu, and performed by Brenda Tan, @thisisemeraldgirl combines new writing, multimedia, and Stella Kon’s original text in a monologue exploring family and social life in a social media age.
Meet Elisabeth Gan, a true-blue Peranakan girl, YouTube star, social media influencer and the owner of a glamorous heritage property on Emerald Hill. Elisabeth invites you into her historic mansion for a night of living like a ’50s socialite.
@thisisemeraldgirl is an adaptation of Stella Kon’s much-loved play Emily of Emerald Hill. The monodrama about a Nonya matriarch was written in 1982 and first performed by Leow Puay Tin in Malaysia in 1984, and Margaret Chan in Singapore in 1985.
Created by Eugene Koh and Lee Shu Yu, and performed by Brenda Tan, @thisisemeraldgirl combines new writing, multimedia, and Stella Kon’s original text in a monologue exploring family and social life in a social media age.
@thisisemeraldgirl has been adapted from the play Emily of Emerald Hill, written by Stella Kon in 1982, and which is a copyrighted work owned by Stella Kon Pte Ltd of Singapore. www.emilyofemeraldhill.com
REGISTRATION
Friday, 29 June 2018, 8PM
Saturday, 30 June 2018, 3PM & 8PM
@ Centre 42 Black Box
Admission: Give-What-You-Can
(Cash only, at the door)
Eugene Koh
Eugene is an aspiring text-based theatre maker. His recent works include Project Understudy under Centre 42’s The Vault (2016), Three Rules of Whore with Saga Seed Theatre at Singapore Night Festival (2016), Bintang Temasek under Saga Seed Theatre’s The Seed Incubator (2017) and Kalakuta: The Time Puzzle (2017). He writes reviews occasionally for ArtsEquator as well. Outside of his work in theatre, Eugene prizes his various hobbies like constructed scripts and banknote collecting.
Sarah Amalina
Sarah is a fresh graduate from the BA Arts Management course in LASALLE. She has a breadth of experience in artist management and festival management, which include events such as the Singapore Grand Prix and the 28th Singapore International Film Festival. @thisismeraldgirl is her return to theatre after working with the visual arts and film for the past 2 years, and she is very excited to be collaborating with her best friends.
Brenda Tan
Brenda is an undergraduate in NUS pursuing a BA in Theatre Studies, with a minor in Film Production from NYU. Her latest projects include writing One Woman, staged by Buds Theatrical Productions and Dark Matter Theatrics and performing in Temporarily Mine, Nothing Serious and U.N.I.T.S. She goes by @wordweed online, posting original short films, beauty, fashion and lifestyle videos on Youtube. She is also the host of the wt+ original series, a creator at Bloomr.SG and runs Go Margaux, an online vintage jewellery store.
Lee Shu Yu
Shu Yu is an aspiring theatre-maker pursuing a BA in Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. She also enjoys stage and production management, design and documentation. Her latest experimentations include Kalakuta: The Time Puzzle (2017) by NUS Thespis and documenting 1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series (2017) by The Theatre Practice. She is also one of Centre 42’s 2018 Citizen Reviewers.
Reading Material
#1: ABOUT EMILY OF EMERALD HILL
#2: SINGAPORE THEATRE IN THE 1980s
#3: INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATORS OF @THISISEMERALDGIRL
Programme Handout
Standing the test of time… alone is a Centre 42 exhibition that showcases five of the most enduring monologues in the history of Singapore English-language theatre. It features materials from our digital theatre archive, the Repository, and accompanies The Vault: @thisisemeraldgirl. The exhibition ran in the Centre 42 Front Courtyard from 29 June to 31 July 2018. Click the thumbnail below to see the exhibition panels.
