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Teh Fatimah Abdul Wahab

Teh Fatimah binti Abdul Wahab wrote in 1950 the text of a historical play that Buyong Adil staged the same year in Ipoh, in Perak. A historian and former teacher at the Sultan Idris training college, he was then running a school in the town, and this was his first staging, in the aftermath of the Japanese occupation, for an audience made up mostly of teachers and their families. Neither the date of birth nor the date of death of the author is known, and the sources attribute no other writing to her.

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