Arts
In the academic year 2006 - 2007 Wheatley Park School Drama Department hosted a new playwriting festival. Workshops were run by leading youth theatre playwrights and Drama practitioners including Mark Wheeller, Paul King and Andy Kemp to inspire the community to write new short plays between 10 and 30 minutes long. They were performed by schools around Oxfordshire, groups at Wheatley Park and local theatre companies including Wheatley Productions.
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“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)