Transport: Cargo

Cargo makes the pulse of freight transport visible, where our modern infrastructure keeps everyday life running while placing ever-increasing pressure on people, the environment, and resources. [The Transport performances complement each other in a way that means they really should be experienced as two parts of a whole, therefore GoFigure offers a “Transport duo ticket” at a reduced price.]

At the center is a truck driver traveling through the night, caught between deadlines, long drives, and difficult decisions. The performance follows him through his working day with stops, delays, and small obstacles that gradually squeeze out any chance of breathing space. An encounter in the dark and a sudden rupture at dawn turns a routine ride into a collision where ethics, responsibility, and personal guilt force their way into the drivers seat. Through the driver’s perspective, the outlines of a global system emerge, where millions of vehicles keep our goods flowing while emissions, resource use, and human costs accumulate as stowaways.

Transport project is an international hyperrealistic mini-figure theatre project in which six European institutional theatres collaborate to create the same number of performances. The project explores transport as a phenomenon – both as a driving force for globalization and as a source of environmental problems. Through visual and puppet-theatre-based expressions, the performances address themes such as climate, war, resource use, and identity.

Duration: 45 minutes
Language: Non-verbal

Artistic team
Text: Tin Grabnar, Ajda Rooss
Director and concept author: Tin Grabnar
Art and set designer: Sara Slivnik
Costume designer: Tina Bonča
Music and sound designer: Mateja Starič
Lighting designer: Gregor Kuhar
3D model and figure designer: Aleksander Andželović
Wireless lighting system designer: Matej Lazar
Assistants to the art and set designer: Katarina Planinc, Laura Krajnc
Collecting, developing, and preparing story material for the performance Cargo and the overall conceptual design of the Transport project: Tjaša Bertoncelj, Ana Duša, Tin Grabnar, Urša Majcen, Ajda Rooss
Language consultant: Metka Damjan
Cast: Vesna Vončina, Uroš Kaurin
We would like to thank journalist Luka Bregar from Radio Slovenia for reading the radio news about the accident on the oil rig.
Production: Lutkovno Gledališče Maribor

The project is supported by the EU: Creative Europe
Project partners:
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Slovenia (Departure)
Maribor Puppet Theatre, Slovenia (Cargo)
Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences, Estonia (Frontline)
Bialystok Puppet Theatre, Poland (Connecting Flights)
Klaipeda Puppet Theatre, Lithuania (Fasten Your Seatbelts!)
Alfa Theatre, Czech Republic (Tipping Point)
Centre for Puppetry and Animation, Italy