Can you feel the love tonight for Staindrop School's Lion King play?

FINAL year pupils at Staindrop Primary School staged a dramatic and moving performance of The Lion King to celebrate the end of their last term. 

The school hall was magically transformed into the Pride Lands and the Elephant’s Graveyard for the production before the rest of the school and proud parents.

Effort put into rehearsals, which went on for about four weeks, was evident in the flawless performance.

Solid, characterful performances by Evie Arundel as Simba, Alastair Natress as Musafa and Claire MacIness as Nala gave the perfect platform from which Daniel Toft as Timon and Daniel Vickers as Pumbaa could launch their perfectly timed one liners.

If there was a stand out performance then it had to be the Rowan Atkinson-esque execution of the roll of Scar by Thomas Overfield.

With a deadpan expression, he delivered his lines with the type of expression that made Blackadder a hit.