{"product_id":"9781783190515","title":"Summer Day's Dream","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by the appearance of three representatives of the New World Order – an American, a Russian and an Indian – who have devastating plans that will end their new peaceful way of life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A strangely compelling play from the heart of an anguished romantic.... also uncannily topical at a time when Britain is being forced to ask whether its real influence lies in its cultural values rather than its militaristic posturing. ” - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A well-constructed and well-timed revival, and inspires questions in the audience of what exactly our place is in global society, and it is certainly immensely enjoyable\" - \u003ci\u003eA Younger Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oberon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032390713584,"sku":"9781783190515","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783190515_p0.jpg?v=1769892571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783190515","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}