Transport: Frontline 
Estonia / Slovenia

ages 15+  
hyper-realistic object theatre  
in English, Estonian translation on the webpage 
duration 45 minutes

director and author of the idea Tin Grabnar   
dramatist Ajda Rooss   
designer and scenographer Sara Slivnik   
costume designer Tina Bonča   
composer Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar   
sound design Mateja Starič    
3D-printing and puppets Aleksander Andželović   
puppet maker Zoran Srdić    
cast Lee Trei and Mart Müürisepp

What is the role of a politician in war? What about an artist?

Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences’ production Transport: Frontline takes us to a warzone suffering from humanitarian crisis, raising many ethical questions that have no easy answers. How to stay humane even in the most difficult crises?

Transport is a major international project by Slovenian director Tin Grabnar that brings together theatres from Estonia, Slovenia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Poland to create six unique chamber theatre productions. Transport can be regarded as a miniseries, in which each episode may be seen individually but which, if experienced together, create a cohesive whole. The productions share the form of a hyper-realistic 3D-printed miniature world where stories are told through the stop-motion technique used in animation.

Tallinn Treff 2025 presents an opportunity to see four productions of the major project: Transport: Frontline, Transport: Departure, Transport: Cargo, and Transport: Connection Flights. We create a unique shared space, setting scenes for four productions on the stage and in the auditorium of the Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences’ Ferdinand Hall. This solution makes it possible to view the room as an installative exhibition space and see each of the four productions.

The project is funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and may not reflect the views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Project’s website https://www.project-transport.eu/