Who Killed Santa Claus?

Who Killed Santa Claus? is a play by Terence Feely, (1928-2000). Full Length Play, casting: 6m, 2f.

Barbara Love is a famous TV star who, just before her Christmas party, is threatened by a chilling voice on her answering machine and then receives a macabre present boxed in a miniature coffin. Not so much a 'whodunnit' but more a 'who's going to do it', as along troop the staff of her television show for the Christmas buffet, each one of them with a motive to murder her. The tension mounts as this cunningly plotted thriller twists and turns towards the final spine-tingling revelation.

The original text
Published by Samuel French, ISBN: 9780573015106

Performance history in South Africa
1971: Directed by Anthony Sharp for the Toerien-Firth Company starring the London stars John Justin and Naomi Chance, with David Crichton, Adrian Egan, Christine le Brocq at the Intimate Theatre, Johannesburg in 1971. This production opened at the Nico Malan Theatre on 14 September for a short season, including Nigel Kane, Anthony Wheeler, Robert Marais, John Walton in the cast.

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