Transport: Connection Flights  
Poland / Slovenia

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

director and author of the idea Tin Grabnar  
dramatist Ajda Rooss  
scenographer Sara Slivnik  
costume designer Tina Bonča  
composer and sound designer Mateja Starič  
lighting designer Gregor Kuhar  
implementation of lighting system Matej Lazar  
3D-printing and puppets Aleksander Andželović

Does life in flight mode turn empathy on standby too?

The airport is like an oasis separated from the rest of the world. It’s a meeting place for people of different backgrounds, each with their own direction and purpose. For a brief moment, within these walls, they are connected and dependent on each other. Transport: Connecton Flights takes a critical look on unfounded distrust and prejudices that diminish our empathy towards one another, and raises the question: how to cope with screaming injustice?

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/