David Cassidy fans write play

A teenage crush on David Cassidy has been turned into a play - supported by the Seventies pop idol himself.

Could It Be Forever? revisits the schoolgirl passion of the actress/writers Lucie Fitchett and Victoria Willing.

Now 50, Fitchett lives in Sussex, and Willing in Kensal Rise, but they first met when they were at Camden School for Girls.

In a case of art mirroring life, the comic drama examines how old school friends meet up after many years to revisit a week in 1973 when Cassidy, below, was in London.

Fitchett and Willing play both their 15-year-old and middle-aged selves.

They do not know if Cassidy, 60, will accept their invitation to the premiere but he has posted a message of support. "Being the subject of the artistic imagination often humbles me," he said. The friends admit they would probably fall apart if he came. "Part of me is feeling this is a professional thing. But part of me is still 12," Fitchett said.

Could It Be Forever? is at the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Festival from 4 to 29 August.