Materials and Methods

these challenges to be interceded for through IPT if secured prospect for TfD practice in this 21st century and beyond must be guaranteed; which is actually what motivated this research.

performance strategy available to facilitators in contemporary TfD practice. The researcher‟s findings revealed that IPT enhanced the impact of TfD in UNIZIK Community Theatre production. This revelation results from a critical comparative impact analysis of the approaches to the two Community Theatre projects from both institutions respectively, which portrays the fact that the problems that consistently militate against the realization of the full objective of TfD initiatives in target communities border on the approach adopted by practitioners, especially with regard to the defective prevailing approach adopted by the IMSU animators.

This, therefore, reinforces the exigent necessity for conscious commitment on the part of TfD practitioners in not only adopting this viable approach provided by IPT which addresses the deficiencies of the prevailing approach, but also in seeking possible ways of expanding it for the sustenance of contemporary TfD practice and its continued relevance in fostering meaningful development in target communities in this postmodern era, as recommended by the study.

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