LET’S hope it doesn’t really happen but a play entitled Who Killed Santa Claus? is heading for Worcestershire.

Just think how sad that would be and what would we say to those millions of expectant children around the world?

This production from talking Scarlet will be at Malvern’s Festival Theatre at the end of the month.

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 cast includes Kim Tiddy (The Bill, Hollyoaks), Gary Turner (Emmerdale), Freya Copeland (Emmerdale) and David Callister (The Bill).

Who Killed Santa Claus? is at Malvern from Tuesday, November 29 to Saturday, December 3.