Thumbs twitching, trigger-finger blistering, eyes glued to the screen…
17 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*. With the help of Tom, a computer geek from work, Maggie deciphers gaming lingo and attempts to reconnect with Adrian. But when a revolutionary new technology Tom invents gets picked up by the MoD, their lives are rocketed from the virtual to the actual battlefield.
Set in the Midlands, First Person Shooter is a witty and prescient play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.
First Person Shooter promises a vivid and immersive production, combining digitally generated content with live drama to create an extraordinary theatrical experience.
*Pwn – verb, to kill, to annihilate, to totally dominate your opponent
*n00b – noun, novice or somebody unskilled at a particular game
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Amy Bowyer from West Sussex
"Pwn" is technically a polite way of saying "I own you"
daniel from Moira
@daniel "Pwn" is not a polite way of saying "I own you" it originates from the term "own" as in "I owned at that game". Then when gaming became online on such online games as 'runescape' and 'world of warcraft' the term "player own" came about whereas instead of owning at a game you owned other players in a game. This quickly merged into "pwn" pronounced "pown" or "pewn".
i look forward to watching this :)