STAGING A murder
mystery in your own home
mayoseem a. bit macabre to
some, but ten Vancouver
families jumped at the
chance to spice up their
Christmas party-giving.

They rented West Van-
couver Actor’s company to
come into their home and
give a live production of

RENT-A-MURDER
ystery in your own home

“Who Killed Santa Claus?”
by Terence Feely.

The setting of the play is a
Christmas party where a
murder takes place. By
renting the play, the host in
fact has a “party within a
party”. The guests (actors) at
the “party” enter the front
door of the house and at
intermission mingle (in

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character) with the real
guests, so that the real and
theatrical parties overlap. As
the plot thickens, the whole
evening develops into an
eerie mixture of fun, thrills
and suspense.

The response from the
public to this novel idea has
been highly enthusiastic and
all available bookings were

News Photo Btuart Davis

REHEARSING a scene from Who Killed Santa Claus? are Nicholas Squire and Nancy

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taken up within one week of
announcing the production.

Theatre Under the Stairs,
as they call this new venture,
will take place between
December 3 and 18. Actors
Company recently won Best
Production in the B.C.
Drama Festival for Conduct
Unbecoming.

B11 - Wednesday, November 17, 1982 - North Shore News

Chamber singers
at St. Catherine’s

The University of British
Columbia Chamber Singers
will present a choral concept
featuring music. by
Gesualdo, Monteverdi and
Hindemith on Sunday,
November 21, at 7:30 p.m. at
St. Catherine’s Anglican
Church, 1058 Ridgewood,
North Vancouver.

The University Chamber
Singers is a select twelve-
voice vocal ensemble made
up of students in the
Department of Music at
U.B.C. under the direction
of Cortland Hultberg.

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