Kuo Pao Kun was a prominent Singaporean playwright born in China in 1939 who helped raise the profile of English and Chinese language theatre in Singapore. One of his most well-known plays, Mama Looking For Her Cat, was the first multi-lingual play in Singapore, reflecting the country's multicultural society by incorporating different languages. The play deals with breakdowns in communication between generations as the use of dialects declines due to language policies promoting English and Mandarin.