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In Checkpoint Theatre’s Tender Submission, religious faith tests a long marriage
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Actors Lim Kay Siu (left) and Neo Swee Lin, who have been married to each other for 31 years, play a married couple in Checkpoint Theatre's Tender Submission.
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SINGAPORE – The place of religion in a secular society may be a delicate topic to broach in multicultural Singapore, but a new script by playwright Lucas Ho will wade cautiously into the territory.
Tender Submission takes place entirely in a church’s cry room, a sound-proof area tucked at the back of a worship hall for parents to care for their crying infants while they follow the service through a large window.

