Playwrights in the country have observed that theatre seem to have lost its voice among other contemporary of arts and have therefore called for its urgent revival so it can attain a competitive and profitable level.

The playwrights made call in a communiqué issued at the end of the 2nd playwrights' confab held at the Kwara State Council for Arts and Culture, Ilorin from March 6th to Sunday March 8th, 2015.

The confab which was convened by Emeritus Professor Femi Osofisan under the auspices of the Kwara State University, Malete had as its theme 'The Time is Out of Joint' - Playwrighting in the Time of Global Incoherence'.

Participants at the conference discussed the present situation of plays in their various forms – stage drama, screen plays, television scripts, radio scripts, etc. they also deliberated on the position of the academia vis-a-vis Nollywood as well as on various allied institutions and professions that come under the purview of the dramatic arts.

The conference therefore recommend that leadership problems, lack of vision, the macro and micro economic disequilibrium as they affect our society should be addressed in an engaging and entertaining way by playwrights.

And also that Nigerian playwrights should try as much as possible to write in a way that they would be able to carry even the grassroots people along.

Participants at the conference also observed that for playwrights to earn a place in the front-burner of national reckoning, they must interrogate issues that are in the front burner of social discourse.

Among other recommendations made by the conference the communique revealed that playwrights should take into reckoning in their works the crucial reality of social media/multimedia. The conference also said that playwrights should take into consideration the moral and psychological health of children in the face of the corrupting influences of the multimedia channels that these children are currently exposed to.