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Playwright Thomas Lim's Straight Acting explores new definitions of family
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Straight Acting is about two pairs of gay couples who marry in order to have a child.
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SINGAPORE - Playwright-director Thomas Lim's latest work, Straight Acting, is about two pairs of gay couples who marry in order to have a child. But the 30-year-old creator confesses he had a hard time trying to understand why people want to have kids as he himself has no desire for one.
He says: "We just consume so much, why do I want to create another person that's going to continue consuming after me?"
