Transport: Departure

Transport: Departure is based on the true story of the Fužir family from Prevalje, who lost their home in a flood. Using audio recordings of their testimony, we hear water cracking through walls and the current that, with unstoppable force, breaks through human hubris and reckless development. [The Transport performances complement each other in such a way that they really should be experienced as two parts of a whole, which is why GoFigure offers a “Transport duo ticket” at a reduced price.]

On stage, an intimate, tightly framed space opens up where miniatures, models, and live sound form an intersection between realism and fiction. Details vibrate; houses, lights, water, and voices weave together into a landscape that breathes and falls apart at the same time.

The ecological theme is concrete and embodied; it appears as loss, as movement, as fragility. The audience is drawn into a close encounter with nature’s relentless force, where human structures appear temporary and fragile within an ecosystem that always finds its way back to balance.

Transport project is an international hyperrealistic miniature-theatre project in which six European institutional theatres collaborate to create an equal number of performances. The project examines transport as a phenomenon – both as a driving force of globalisation 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 min
Language: English

Authors: Tin Grabnar and Ajda Rooss
Director and concept author: Tin Grabnar
Dramaturg: Ajda Rooss
Text: Ajda Rooss and Tin Grabnar
Art and set designer: Sara Slivnik
Costume designer: Tina Bonča
Composer 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 figure designer: Katarina Planinc and Laura Krajnc
Collecting, developing, and preparing story material for the performance Departure and the overall conceptual design collaboration in the Transport project:
Tjaša Bertoncelj, Ana Duša, Tin Grabnar, Urša Majcen, and Ajda Rooss
Performers: Aja Kobe, Ajda Toman
Sound designer and stage manager: Luka Bernetič
Producer: Alja Cerar Mihajlović
Lighting technician: Gregor Kuhar
Stage technician: Kemal Vrabac Kordiš
Head of LGL workshops: Zoran Srdić
Heads of the LGM and LGL workshops: Lorena Bukovec, Naja Bell, Branko Caserman, Lucijan Jošt, Zala Kalan, Laura Krajnc, Miljenko Knezoci, Tin Matuš, Olga Milić, Mitja Pastirk, Katarina Planinc, Nuka Sajko Ferreira, Zoe Špehar.

Departure would like to thank the Fužir family for their collaboration.

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