Rotterdam’s Alice McCarthy joins the cast of You Game in a gender shifted role previously played by Michael Caine and Jude Law. Written by Sam Ra, You Game is a modern, female led, story based on the Tony Award-winning classic Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer.
You Game takes the male role of Milo Tindle and shifts the character to become Bella Lanson, creating added challenges to the older character of Jack Guest (previously Andrew Wyke) on new levels of gender and patriarchy, on top of the twisty game play the original script is so famous for.
An immensely successful screenwriter lures his wife’s lover to the house and convinces her to stage a robbery of her jewellery; setting off a chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher what is true, and what is fiction for the sake of the game.
Sam Ra from the company said, “As a female writer Bella’s voice is very much my own. I wanted to give the younger character more power, so she became an ambitious young actress. For Jack Guest I drew from my own experience of deluded men in the entertainment industry.”
Alice McCarthy originated the role of Alice in Jon Brittain’s Olivier Award winning play Rotterdam straight out of drama school, which she performed in the West End & on Broadway. This summer she appeared as Nanny Harewood in the Downton Abbey movie.
You Game is at The Studio Theatre RADA 26th November to 14th December 2019.
