First Person Shooter

"Thumbs twitching, trigger-finger blistering, eyes glued to the screen ... Seventeen-year-old student Adiran has a serious habit--playing military shooters on his games console. Single mum Maggie wants him to study Classics at uni and stop locking himself in his room 'pwning n00bs'. With the help of computer geek Tom, Maggie deciphers gaming lingo in an attmept to reconnect with Adrian. But when a revolutionary new technology Tom has invented gets picked up by the Ministry of Defence, their lives are rocketed from the virtual to the actual battlefield. First person shooter is a funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide. It premiered at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2010"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.