Santa Claus Is a Stinker
A farcical stage comedy that mines dark subject matter—suicide, abuse, crisis—for situational humor through colliding characters and neurotic energy.
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
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