Author Identifier
Bronte Frances: http://orcid.org/0009-0005-5044-9791
Date of Award
2026
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Bachelor of Performing Arts Honours
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
First Supervisor
Renee Newman
Abstract
The project is interested in how hope can operate as an affective, embodied force within collaborative performance-making processes. In this specific context it was to see how, where and why the concept of hope was possible in the collaborative making of a new and original full length theatre work that was addressing themes of crisis and collapse. Invoking key theorists – Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (2022), Donna Haraway (2016), Kathleen Stewart (2007), Jonathan Lear (2006), and Rebecca Solnit (2016) – the research investigated how hope can be consistently enacted. Centred on investigating hope as affect experienced in the present here and now, as opposed to a future-orientated or Utopian function of hope, this practice-as-research project utilised reflective practice to develop a queer, feminist performance practice, and a working transferrable framework for devising practices situated within an ethical, radical and restorative version of hope.
DOI
10.25958/cgt3-3f79
Recommended Citation
Frances, B. (2026). Hope as affect: Engaging with crisis and collapse through collaborative performance making. Edith Cowan University. https://doi.org/10.25958/cgt3-3f79