'Hilariously foul-mouthed, drug-fuelled, dysfunctional and surreal'

**** Time Out

'Every year the competition gets tougher for the most "alternative" yet faithfully seasonal Christmas show: I think the 2007 round has found its winner already'

**** Financial Times

'Festive filth... this modern reworking of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, though certainly not for the kiddies, with its filthy language, sexual explicitness, off-colour jokes and frenzied drinking and drug-taking, proves both wildly entertaining and unexpectedly touching... there is a real bravura about the writing, which is full of sick jokes, sudden shocks and Pirandellian twists... highly recommended'

Daily Telegraph

'The comic anarchy is a blast... Neilson engineers great sharp twists, whipping the rug from under your feet'

Independent

A Christmas Appeal from Anthony Neilson

This Christmas, spare a thought for all the thousands of single men out there for whom Christmas is not such a joyous time. Every year, hundreds of these poor suicidal souls are slaughtered by about 10pm on Christmas Eve and have little to look forward to on the day itself but several hours of self-recrimination, internet surfing and First-Person shooting. Despite scrutinising Nigella Lawson's programmes, many of these men are still unable to cook anything but pasta with pesto. Even less will have remembered to buy parmesan; it's a very grim picture indeed. Yes, Kylie Minogue is in the Doctor Who special but otherwise these men will spend Christmas Day totally alone.

Please spare a thought for these genetically-hamstrung individuals and come to see God in Ruins at Soho Theatre, which stars eleven such men attempting to address the aforementioned social issue through comedy, drama and song.

God bless you one and all.

'The most surreal, foul-mouthed and nasty Christmas story you'll see this year'

The Stage 

Anthony Neilson is one of the major voices in contemporary British theatre, whose critically acclaimed The Wonderful World of Dissocia enjoyed a sell out run at The Royal Court earlier this year.

Working with 11 male actors from the RSC Ensemble and created over six weeks in summer 2007, God in Ruins is Anthony Neilson's hilarious and hotly anticipated new play; instinctive, thrilling and unashamedly entertaining theatre.

'Anthony Neilson flies the banner for free speech by having his characters insult every religion going with jokes in magnificently bad taste'

Sunday Telegraph

20 £5 tickets available for people aged 16-25 at every performance.