Lone-woman play Emily of Emerald Hill in town this week

The lone-woman play Emily of Emerald Hill will return to Beijing this Wednesday to Sunday, after its first round of performances in April.

Led by Malaysian director Deric Gan, it stars Chinese actress Ren Mingsong and is set in Singapore between the 1930s and '60s.

The play tells the story of Emily, a Straits-born Chinese woman, or Nyonya, who married a rich man from a similar background at age 14, and later became a powerful family matriarch.