A Round-Heeled Lady

Sharon Gless in "A Round-Heeled Lady"A John Eastman presentation from the play in one act written and directed by Jane Prowse, good true story of Jane Juska.Jane - Sharon GlessAt age 66, outdated San Fran schoolteacher Jane Juska placed an personal advertisements ad inside the "NY Summary of Books" stating she preferred to possess "plenty of sex getting a man I loveInch before her next birthday. She chronicled her resulting encounters in the memoir that has now been modified in to a star vehicle for Sharon Gless, which preemed a year ago in Miami. Even though venture clearly aspires to entertain and enlighten in regards to the emotional and physical details of golden-age sex, pedestrian text and adapter Jane Prowse's old-fashioned production comparable to a expected 100-minute narrative of self-discovery and redemption. There's an attempt inside a mildly shocking opener after we are welcomed through the look at Jane (Gless), resplendent in the flowing red-colored-colored nightie, lounging on her behalf account bed mattress and coping with the truly amazing part of a round of phone sex. But production determines it is a fact tone as, carrying out a laugh line, Jane "realizes" everyone else will there be and starts to cope with us directly. Show is basically a lengthy monologue, separate with passed moments between Jane and her various suitors (carried out with the multi-role stars Craig McCarthy, Neil McCaul and Michael Thomson), female buddies (Jane Bertish and Jesse Cordingly), and, since the therapeutic length of the narrative progresses, dead mother (Bertish) and estranged adult boy (Thomson). And guess what happens? The dating scene after 65 isn't that remote the higher mediatized encounters more youthful people: Jane meets a few cads, some nice-males-with-a-catch (addiction, disease), has some mediocre sex after which it progressively better sex, but eventually knows her real problem is self-acceptance and emotional skeletons inside the closet. The emotional terrain and narrative level here's redolent from the eighties-era Movie every week, an effect furthered with the handsome but stolid home-interior set (by Ian Fisher) and several interspersed moments of attempted comedy in the salsa dancing class with the sport Thomson attired being an extra from "Flashdance." Gless looks splendid which is never within likeable and understanding presence, but sometimes one feels her pushing to produce her charisma attain the rear from the 400-chair auditorium. She's being made to work too much to keep the whole evening afloat. A London run was most most likely produced because Prowse relies here, because the fabric features a running reference to the the task of novelist Anthony Trollope (the title can be a Trollope-era euphemism for just about any promiscuous lady). But show clangs as way too touchy-feely-American to produce much cultural sense in Blighty, though a touring or sit-lower future in seniors-oriented cities Stateside might be saleable.Sets, Ian Fisher costumes, David Blight lighting, Nick Richings appear and music, Matt Corey production manager, Digby Robinson. Opened up up, examined March. 19, 2011. Running time: 1 hour, 40 MIN.With: Jane Bertish, Jesse Cordingly, Craig McCarthy, Neil McCaul, Michael Thomson Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com