Gwyneth Strong Joins Sharon Gless & More in London's A Round-Heeled Woman

British stage and screen vet Gwyneth Strong joins Sharon Gless in A Round-Heeled Woman at the West End’s Aldwych Theatre. She will play Celia, replacing actress Jane Bertish, through the production’s final performance on January 14, 2012. The show, based on Jane Juska's best-selling self-penned book of the same name, has been adapted for the stage and directed by Jane Prowse.

Strong, who is making her West End debut in A Round-Heeled Woman, is best known for her role as Cassandra in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses. Her other TV roles include Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Murder in Suburbia, Casualty and Brand Spanking New Show. Her London stage credits include work at the Bush, the Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre and for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

After 30 years of being “severely deprived” of touch, retired Californian English teacher and divorcee Jane Juska (Gless) decided to place a personals ad in her favorite 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.

In addition to Gless, Strong joins a cast that includes Jane Bertish, Beth Cordingly, Barry McCarthy, Neil McCaul, and Michael Thomson.