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| − | ''Who Killed Santa Claus?'', a play by Terence Feely [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Feely], 1928-2000. Full Length Play, casting: 6m, 2f. | + | ''Who Killed Santa Claus?'', a play by Terence Feely [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 15:30, 10 August 2015
Who Killed Santa Claus?, a play by Terence Feely [1], (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.
Contents
The original text
Published by Samuel French, ISBN: 9780573015106
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Directed by Anthony Sharp for the Toerien-Firth Company starring John Justin, Naomi Chance, David Crichton, Adrian Egan , Christine le Brocq at the Intimate Theatre, Johannesburg in 1971.
Sources
AfricaWide database.
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