FORMER boys club friends have reunited to stage their own production.

Bill Fellows and David Evans first worked together during the early 1970s at the Grangetown Boys' Club, which was then led by the late Bert Woolley MBE.

They were room mates at drama school, then went their separate ways. Mr Fellows became a professional actor, and Mr Evans went into teaching.

Now, 21 years later, the pair have reunited to devise "The Selkie", an original play with music at Middlesbrough's Nunthorpe School.

The play has been developed with the help of the school's youth theatre from the ancient Celtic myth of the Selkie - the regal sons and daughters of the sea.

Mr Fellows, who helped to compose the music, has appeared in several stage and television productions, including West End plays and the programmes Byker Grove and A Touch of Frost. Mr Evans, who wrote the script, is head of Nunthorpe School's aesthetic, creative and physical faculty.

He said: "Ofsted recently described our work as 'profoundly moving and of a standard rarely seen in schools'. The Selkie will, we hope, live up to our usual standards."

Productions take place at the school from December 12 to 16, starting at 7.30pm