{"product_id":"9781848421417-first-person-shooter","title":"First Person Shooter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-year-old student Adrian has a serious habit - playing military shooters on his computer games console. Single mum Maggie wants him to study Classics at uni and stop locking himself in his room pwning* n00bs**.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the help of computer geek Tom, Maggie deciphers gaming lingo in an attempt to reconnect with Adrian. But when a revolutionary new technology Tom has invented gets picked up by the Ministry of Defence, their lives are\u003cbr\u003erocketed from the virtual to the actual battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Jenkins' play \u003cem\u003eFirst Person Shooter\u003c\/em\u003e was first staged at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Pwn – (verb) to kill, to annihilate, or to totally dominate your opponent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**n00b – (noun) a novice or somebody unskilled at a particular game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41610631479393,"sku":"9781848421417","price":7.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27185046.jpg?v=1721557956","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781848421417-first-person-shooter","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}