When British theatre maker Tom Bailey set off from the Norwegian-Russian border in March, he had a tent, a fuel stove, enough gear to survive temperatures ranging from -30°C to +15°C – and no finished show to perform. That was the point.
Bailey, who is based in Bristol and works under the theatre company MECHANIMAL, was travelling more than 600 kilometres across Arctic borderlands between Norway, Finland and Sweden by ski, sled, foot and boat.