‘New Views’ with the National Theatre

In the Performing Arts department this week – A group of Year 10 and Year 9 students had the wonderful opportunity to take part in a National Theatre playwriting competition ’New Views’.
12 students had a workshop with playwright Maryam Shaharuddin.

New Views is the National Theatre’s nationwide in-school playwriting programme for students aged 14-19. Each school will be working with a professional playwright who  mentors the students throughout this academic year to write their own original 30-minute plays.

The New Views programme empowers students to:

• Tell stories that matter to them
• Develop playwriting techniques such as independent working, communication, and research through feedback
• Understand the power of theatre to create a shared experience of storytelling
• Explore and communicate ideas on the changing world
• Present different perspectives

This is an extremely exciting project. Maryam was very impressed with the students at Stepney All Saints commenting ‘They have great original ideas and I can’t wait to read their plays-  and what a lovely bunch of students’

The SASS Creatives will host a play reading festival in the drama studios in July. Watch this space!