Sharon Gless to Star in A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN in London

Multiple Emmy & Golden Globe award-winning actress Sharon Gless returns to the London stage to star in the British premiere of A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN based on Jane Juska's best selling true-story book of the same name. The production will open in London at the Riverside Studios on Wednesday 19 October, with previews from 18 October. The limited season will end on 20 November.

Retired Californian English teacher and divorcee, Jane Juska realised, after 30 years of being ‘severely deprived' of touch, that she ‘liked men'! She decided to place a personals ad in her favourite periodical, The New York Review of Books: Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me. She received 63 replies, from men aged between 32 and 84, and went on to write of her experiences in A Round-Heeled Woman - My Late-Life Adventures in Sex & Romance, described by Lynne Truss as ‘The best book about sex I have read in a long time' (Sunday Times).

Sharon Gless plays Jane Juska. Fondly remembered as sharp-talking cop Christine Cagney in the long-running series Cagney & Lacey, her other many critically-acclaimed television roles include Debbie Novotny in Queer as Folk and Madeline Westen in Burn Notice. She has appeared twice before on the London stage, in the stage version of Stephen King's Misery and in Neil Simon's Chapter Two. Further casting to be announced.

A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN has been written for the stage and is directed by British writer/director Jane Prowse, who also co-wrote and directed the Olivier-nominated musical Up on the Roof. Her prolific television work includes Ghost Train and Witness for Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution and the BBC's much repeated Christmas film, The Greatest Store in the World. She has also written three children's novels - the Hattori Hachi trilogy. Design is by Matthew Wright and lighting by Nick Richings.

A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN is produced in London by Brian Eastman, with Andrew Welch as executive producer.