‘There’s most likely no God … but I desire there was. I’ve got some factors I have to request him.’

Predicated on Marcus Brigstocke’s award-winning Edinburgh and West End show, God Collar targets the ‘God-shaped gap’ that opens up in Marcus’s life following the death of his best friend. Exploring his own problems surrounding beliefs – his lack of it, his need for it, some people’s waste of it and what great purposes it could serve if he could get hold of it – he rails against the holy trinity of Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) while atheists, agnostics and believers of all faiths get it in the throat too. God Collar is usually a scathing look at contemporary faith which will keep you laughing out loud and analyzing your own beliefs in equivalent measure.

‘As luck would have it, my relationship with God is as dysfunctional and peppered with resentment and recrimination as ever, which means this should make for good composing.’