Panacea for Economic Challenges in Nigeria: Theatre Design as a Hobby (original) (raw)

The economic conditions of most Africans countries are becoming poorer even as other economies especially in the Western world are growing fast. The need for Africans, especially Nigerians, to explore other creative and legal avenues for additional incomes cannot be overemphasized. Theatre Design as an art, which involves the creation of costumes, and fabrication of theatrical properties (props), which are attributes of sculptural plastic art offers a great opportunity for such creative self-exploration. The problem, which has necessitated this research, consists in the gap between economic wellbeing and creativity. Nigerians appear to be creative, yet they appear to be poor. Therefore, the objective of this study is to appraise the lucrative tendencies of Theatre Design with a view to encouraging theatre students, scholars and semiskilled individuals to develop hobbies around theatrical crafts to surmount economic challenges and boost work force in Theatre Design. This study relies on Marx's Economic Theory of Alienation, employs Participatory Observation method of investigation and attempts a qualitative analysis of data to reach the conclusion that: if talents in Theatre Design are discovered and developed, personal economic prospects would be high and this would lead to higher per capital income of the entire country.