North West Drama are one of the workshop leaders at this year's Music & Drama Education Expo | Manchester. Creative producer Matt Wardle tells us about their flagship project, the Children's Shakespeare Festival, which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary

The Children's Shakespeare Festivals (CSF) are a series of large scale inter-school festivals. They take place each academic year across two terms, and comprise a short, intensive residential INSET for school staff, specialist workshops with pupils in school, and a comprehensive scheme of work. This is followed by work towards a final festival performance on prestigious professional stages across the North West, where students perform plays of their own devising, based on their classroom exploration. Our theatre partners include the Royal Exchange Theatre, The Lowry, Oldham Coliseum Theatre and the New Vic.

Each CSF has a director who works closely with each participating class at different stages of the project, which has three distinct phases:

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