ABSTRACT
Interventionist theatre has in recent times started gaining wide acceptance among theatre departments in Nigerian universities. Since the experiments of the Zaria school in the early 1970s, the practice of using theatre to develop homegrown solutions to troubled societies is becoming the norm. In Nigeria, the theatre has been targeted to help resolve some contentious issues through theatre for development and community/applied theatre initiatives. The major characteristics of street theatre, therefore, are that the audience does not pay to watch the performance and it is a medium of communicating issues to the masses. The Amansea Street Theatre experiment is put forward as a means of sensitizing people to the dangers of ethnic quarrels and the advantages of coexistence amongst people of different ethnic origins. The script was developed out of the research carried out on the existing relationship between the Amansea people and the Hausa/Fulani settlers in their midst.
