Emily of Emerald Hill

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(Limited Art Edition)

by Stella Kon
Fine art work by Kelly Reedy

Stella Kon’s iconic character, Emily of Emerald Hill, has been given life by many actors in numerous productions since the play was written in 1982.

Now, it is presented in a fresh way, with the script published as a fine art edition book limited to 750 copies with 20 artworks by Kelly Reedy.

Just as audiences have seen Emily’s home at Emerald Hill represented in stage sets lavish or minimalist, realistic or abstract, and Emily performed as larger-than-life, introspective or coy, Emily of Emerald Hill is discovered anew here via the medium of visual arts.

Commissioned to create symbolic images representing specially chosen characters and scenes from the play, Reedy worked exclusively in the medium of collage, combining elements from the different cultural heritages that make up the Peranakan world, including Malay inspired batik fabrics, Chinese traditional paper cuts, as well as references to the British Colonial era.

• CASE BOUND IN SAIFU CLOTH WITH SILK SCREEN DESIGNS ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS • FRENCH-FOLDED PAGES • SAIFU-CLOTH-BOUND SLIP CASE • ARTIST APPROVED PRESS PROOFS

Size: 260 x 197 mm
Extent: 83 French-fold pages
Binding: Casebound, cloth with silkscreen design
Weight: 930 g
ISBN: 978-981-41-8944-6

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(Limited Art Edition)

by Stella Kon
Fine art work by Kelly Reedy

Stella Kon’s iconic character, Emily of Emerald Hill, has been given life by many actors in numerous productions since the play was written in 1982.

Now, it is presented in a fresh way, with the script published as a fine art edition book limited to 750 copies with 20 artworks by Kelly Reedy.

Just as audiences have seen Emily’s home at Emerald Hill represented in stage sets lavish or minimalist, realistic or abstract, and Emily performed as larger-than-life, introspective or coy, Emily of Emerald Hill is discovered anew here via the medium of visual arts.

Commissioned to create symbolic images representing specially chosen characters and scenes from the play, Reedy worked exclusively in the medium of collage, combining elements from the different cultural heritages that make up the Peranakan world, including Malay inspired batik fabrics, Chinese traditional paper cuts, as well as references to the British Colonial era.

• CASE BOUND IN SAIFU CLOTH WITH SILK SCREEN DESIGNS ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS • FRENCH-FOLDED PAGES • SAIFU-CLOTH-BOUND SLIP CASE • ARTIST APPROVED PRESS PROOFS

Size: 260 x 197 mm
Extent: 83 French-fold pages
Binding: Casebound, cloth with silkscreen design
Weight: 930 g
ISBN: 978-981-41-8944-6

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Reviews

From Goodreads

Stella Kon's play is a masterpiece in Singapore literature.

A very acclaimed piece of Singaporean literature, and rightly so. The amount of detail and personality injected into the character of Emily is remarkable, and her words alone are enough to take one on a tumultuous and vivid emotional journey. There's so much depth to unearth and possibilities to consider.

You would definitely be filled with emotions when reading Emily of Emerald Hill.

Amazing how the play remains engaging and heartbreaking despite only having one voice tell the story... testament to how innovative the writing is.

Familiar, and touching. Is at once intensely particularistic: its protagonist is produced by a specific intersection of recent poverty, familial pressure, peranakan cultural multivalence, later motherhood, and the leisures and anxieties of upper class existence, and yet also a synecdochal expression of the expectations of femininity and the development of Singapore. All told by a single character and a single powerful voice… Minimalist, dignified and emotional.