Emily of Emerald Hill is one of Singapore’s most enduring plays and in homage to this piece of work, the Peranakan Museum of Singapore had earlier held an exhibition of the play and its various stagings, sets and scripts which ran from 1 Jun 2012-17 Feb 2013. The exhibition was further extended till 8 Apr 2013, drawing a record attendance of 120,000. [SMU Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies] Margaret Chan who was the first actor in Singapore to reprise the role of Emily, said, “Curating theatre is novel, and the Peranakan Museum (and so the Asian Civilisations Museum) should indeed be congratulated for this vision, which goes beyond the material culture associated with museums to theatre which is ephemeral, existing only in the moment of its making.”
