Transport: Departure  
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 and sound designer Mateja Starič  
lighting designer Gregor Kuhar  
3D-printing and puppets Aleksander Andželović  
cast Aja Kobe, Ajda Toman

When it comes to the choices you make, are you at the wheel or just a passenger?

Transport: Departure brings into focus the natural disasters around us: floods, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires. It is a vivid story of the world of today, where the changes brought on by all of us affect the existence of millions of creatures around the world. Do we take the comfortable road and go along with the ride, allowing our bad habits to let the beauty of this world fade away in the rearview mirror? Or do we pull the handbrake and change the course together?

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/