The Theatre and Envronmental Conservation: Communicating on Environmental Preservation Through the Arts of the Theatre

As the state of the world's environment causes greater concern, various approaches are being enunciated to stem the tide of degradation. The emphasis has been on environmental education and it has become imperative that every professional, especially those involved in the creation of outlets of information, be stakeholders in environmental education. This work seeks to establish the role which the theatre artist should play in environmental sensitization. It undertakes the establishment of a theoretical basis for the theatre/environment symbiosis and enunciates playcreation strategies for environmental communication and education and also articulates an organizational framework within which these strategies would thrive. The methodology shall entail the utilization of observations in a sample theatre for development environmental activity, to project and proffer playmaking and organizational models in the theatre for environmental preservation process, through the stages of formal and street theatres, community theatre, and the theatre programmes of radio and television.