Act 3

Eric: Why did you stay with him… if you knew… all these years… what he was doing… why… if he was satan?
Habiba: He is saitan. But he is a also good man. He got good heart. He love his children so much.

Part Three

NENEK: If I die, I will die here. It is God’s will. I tell my husband. “Leave me here, if I die it is God’s will”. “If I live it is also God’s will”. So we sit down. We see people, the ears are cut off, some people, here also cut off…

Scene 2

Bryan: –Look! I already said I’m gay right? I am gay! Can you respect my choice not to practice! You are worse than the–
Faith: Than the what?
Bryan: Nothing
Faith: Than the what?!!
Bryan: Than the church! Than the church who try to make gay people straight. You make gay people–GAYER! You accuse them of being fundamentalist, but you are worse! You want everyone to be like you, to follow YOUR rules. You can’t even open your fucking mind!

Prologue

Haresh: As part of the process of this play, we sent a letter to the IRO–Inter Religious Organisation–in Singapore. We asked them a few questions with regards to spirituality, mortality, suffering, violence, pain… The following are some replies. Some have been slightly edited for length, some are translated and all names have been withheld.

Nine: Agnes Meets the Disciples

AGNES: There is no goddess in the sky. There is no other goddess but I.

Rosnah said no, you must become Muslim. If you want to marry me, you must become Muslim and that’s it. No Muslim, no marriage. Stephen said why? What has institutionalised religion got to do with morality? Look at Muslinda.

Act 5, Scene 1–September. Rooms/Void Deck

SALOMA: God can help us.

VINOD: Help us? Great! Did God help you when you were in Woodbridge? Don't forget God put you there in the first place.

Act 3, Scene 3–Dev’s parent’s house [one year ago]

GERALD: I’m a Christian now. I told you before.
DEV (playing Gerald's father): Inside this house, you not Christian. You Buddhist.

Walking Into Doors (1998)

Nirmala: So the play reaches out perhaps also to victims but also more importantly, to those who do not want to be involved because they do not want to be victims of the perpetrators. It has to say, what are you doing about it? Why is it that some issues capture your attention, and some others we turn away and run from it? So it tries to force you to participate.

Act 3, Scene 3

Radha… Radha…
Your pain will end soon…
Don’t be afraid…
Don’t stop fighting…
Smile…