Applications now open for NT New Views student playwriting competition

Applications are now open for the National Theatre's New Views 2022/23 competition. 

Any school or college can apply to participate in the programme, and while New Views is aimed at school years 10 - 13, slightly younger students may take part at the discretion of individual schools and colleges. 

In the New Views programme teachers have the opportunity to gain skills as practical facilitators and young people can be empowered to tell the stories that matter to them. 

In 2021, Natalie Randall, the teacher of the New Views 2021 winner Mackenzie Wellfare, said: ’New Views has really helped with [the students'] understanding about the structure of a play, and what you have to try and communicate to an audience through a play. I think it really helped with their devising for their A Level course as well. It made a big difference.’