Mackenzie, N., Woods, N., 2023.

Three More Degrees of Frost

Exploring the concept and function of scores/scoring in the development of performance material is a specifically formal concern. What is available through, or generated by, the scores/scoring, in terms of its representations or engagement with current discourse, is a separate question. But what if documentation of performance material, presented theatrically over 20 years ago, is redeveloped itself as a score for contemporary performance? And what if that material itself engaged with the linguistics of performance, and the status of the text as score, via the appropriation of a specific dramatic text written 100 years before in a different language? To engage with that material once again, over 20 years later, is to test the linguistic functioning and status of such material, as well as to consider its representations or engagement with current discourse, as it was 100 years ago, and again 20 years ago, and again now.

Three More Degrees of Frost was created by Niki Woods and Neil Mackenzie, both founder members of Plane Performance and devisors of Three Degrees of Frost, a theatre performance that toured nationally and internationally in 2000/2001, described as 'a game of catch with one of the classic theatre texts of the last century'.