PETER DE BAAN   

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Plays by Peter de Baan

PETER DE BAAN

Perfect Happiness

1st Produced:

REP Theatre, Amsterdam / Holland

2008

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Genre:

comedy, tragedy and plot driven thriller

Parts:

Male

1

Female

2

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Notes:

written by by Charles den Tex and Peter de Baan. Subsequent production: Pfalztheaters, Kaiserslautern / Germany in 2009

Synopsis:

Tom, Ellen and Mara have known each other for twenty years. Tom and Ellen are happily married. They have no children. Ellen is past the age that she can have children. Mara is single, a merchant banker, younger than Ellen. She wants a child before it is too late, but she doesn't want a man. She wants a sperm donor. A perfect sperm donor. She wants Tom. They discuss it and as Mara's wish becomes more poignant, Ellen's deception is revealed: because Tom didn't want children, she has always pretended not to want any either. She even had an abortion without telling him. Still, Tom fathers Mara's child and Mara sells Tom's company, making him enormously wealthy and putting aside enough for herself and her child. After the child is born, Mara feels compelled to tell Ellen what has happened. She cannot live with the lie. Ellen is shocked and furious. She forces Tom to sort things out. With an unexpected move Tom turns everything around and takes the child from Mara. It is now his child and Ellen accept it as her own. Happiness seems like a choice and turns out to be a trap.

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