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the wellington college year book 2010/2011 Erin O’Sullivan Salt ’n’ Pepper 58 59 Contemporary Aboriginal Art Hamilton directed Gut Girls, set in the East End of London in the late nineteenth century; this story of economics and class was a great opportunity for those pupils not usually involved in drama productions to come out of comfort zones and see what they could do; the results were excellent. The production of Frost /Nixon was really quite astonishing. Polymath and Arts Colours with Distinction recipient Illias Thoms did a splendid job as director, capturing the 1970s, along with the compelling relationship between the then president and a young, ambitious David Frost; it was simply ‘electric’ ! A wonderful Dance Show saw an array of both traditional and contemporary dance styles and it is really wonderful to see dance becoming such a major arts discipline at Wellington, invol