ABOUT
“Transport” project, led by Slovenian director Tin Grabnar, is an international co-production uniting six theaters from Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic in the 2024/2025 season.
Through six unique productions, the project examines transport's dual role as a driver of globalisation and a source of environmental harm.
While celebrating transport's benefits—cultural diversity and economic growth—the project delves into its environmental toll, urging sustainable and responsible global development. Each standalone performance addresses contemporary issues, and as a series or puppet theatre omnibus, highlights their interconnectedness.
With hyper-realistic visuals and immersive soundscapes, the productions confront audiences with the realities of ecological crises, wars, resource depletion, and cultural identity loss. Additionally, the project critically evaluates the environmental impact of theater production, incorporating sustainable touring practices.
The Transport project has developed a model that enables more environmentally friendly hosting of theatre performances. Each staging is designed as a compact and self-contained production of small dimensions that can be easily packed into shipping containers that can be carried out by public postal services, which significantly reduces the impact on the environment.
PARTNERS
LEADING PARTNER
Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana
www.lgl.si/en
Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana is the central puppet theatre in Slovenia, building on more than 70 years of experience. Every year, it puts on ten new performances for children, young audiences and adults at six venues, combining classical puppet forms with various contemporary performance practises. The theatre also takes care of the rich heritage of Slovenian puppetry, which can be seen in the Museum of Puppetry at Ljubljana Castle.
Uroš Korenčan
+386 1 3000 970
uros.korencan@lgl.si
Touring contact
Lidija Franjić
+386 1 3000 972
lidija.franjic@lgl.si
Lutkovno gledališče Maribor
www.lg-mb.si/en
Maribor Puppet Theatre, founded in 1974, produces six performances yearly and stages over 400 shows locally and internationally. With five stages in a renovated 2010 venue, its 30-member team creates acclaimed works for children and adults.
It hosts the Summer Puppet Pier festival and the Biennial of Puppetry Artists of Slovenia, collaborates with various institutions, and promotes puppetry to wider audiences. Through education and innovation, it aims to be a modern puppet centre for all ages.
Katarina Klančnik Kocutar
+386 2 22 81 970
katarina.klancnik-kocutar@lg-mb.si
Touring contact
Andreja Lešnik
+386 2 22 81 972
andreja.lesnik@lg-mb.si
Białostocki Teatr Lalek
www.btl.bialystok.pl
Bialystok Puppet Theatre (BTL), established in 1953, is one of Poland's oldest puppet stages and the first with a purpose-built venue. It produces 3–6 performances each season, blending puppet techniques with visual, object, mask, and drama theatre. BTL is renowned for its shows for children, puppet repertoire for adults, and experimental productions involving young puppeteers. It also organizes the International Festival of Puppet Theatres for Adults (PUPPETS’ METAMORPHOSES) and co-hosts the International Festival of Puppetry Schools (PUPPET-NO-PUPPET)..
dr hab. Jacek Malinowski
+48 85 742 50 31
dyrektor@btl.bialystok.pl
Sihtasutus Eesti Noorsooteater
www.eestinoorsooteater.ee/en
Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences is to date the only professional puppet and visual theatre in Estonia. In our creative work, we follow the belief that theatre can help young people understand their place in the world or inspire them to change themselves and/or the world. Through theatre, young people can see and value relationships with all that is around them – family, friends, society, nature and different cultures – but also see what is unhealthy or dangerous about these relationships. Growing up in the sphere of influence of such a theatre, they will hopefully enter adulthood as empathetic, open-minded and inspired individuals.
Sirlen Rekkor
+372 5557 5968
sirlen.rekkor@eestinoorsooteater.ee
Klaipėdos lėlių teatras
klaipedosleliuteatras.lt/en
Established in 2000, it is an independent professional theatre dedicated to the art of puppetry. Theatre’s credo To Be an Inspiring Light is a conscious choice to never stop experimenting and looking for new means of visual expression, sharing with the world the beauty and versatility of this special art form, and standing for the values of equality, diversity, and liberty. Since 1997 Klaipėda Puppet Theatre has been organising Materia Magica, a renowned biannual international festival for contemporary puppetry.
Agnė Pulokaitė
+370 612 40 869
agne.magica@gmail.com
Divadlo ALFA
www.divadloalfa.cz
ALFA Theatre’s direct forerunner, the Children’s Theatre, opened in September 1966 in the ALFA premises on Americká street. In 1992 it moved to a modern building at Rokycanská 7, and changed to its current title. Since 1970 the theatre has undertaken over 100 foreign tours. Since 1967 the theatre has been the joint organiser of the SKUPA'S PILSEN festival. Since the beginning of 2015 its managing director has been MgA Jakub Hora. The theatre’s current creative team together with external colleagues and the ten-member company of actors, favours a comedic concept of theatre, continuing to view the puppet as a dominant and unusually attractive stage phenomenon. The theatre addresses a broad audience – children, young people and adults. The repertoire is varied in both theme and genre, from classic and modern fairytales to world drama.
MgA. Jakub HORA
+420 737 121 302
jakub.hora@divadloalfa.cz
Centro Regionale Teatro Animazione e Figure CTA
www.ctagorizia.it
The CTA, Centro Regionale di Teatro d'Animazione e di Figure di Gorizia, Italy, has been promoting "Theatre of Figures" since 1994 through productions, festivals, workshops, and exhibitions. A founding member of the Associazione dei Teatri di Figura / AGIS ATF, it is recognized as a National Figure Theatre by the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities. Key initiatives include the Alpe Adria Puppet Festival (32nd edition) in Gorizia, Grado, and Nova Gorica, and the Festival delle Valli del Natisone (25 editions). Notable projects include Becke] and Marioneta, Puppet and Music, and the European project PUPPET & DESIGN (2020-2023). For 24 years, it has also hosted "I Pomeriggi d'Inverno," a winter theatre series for children in Gorizia.
+39 0481.537280
info@ctagorizia.it
ASSOCIATED PARTNERS
Le Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes
festival-marionnette.com
Manipulate Arts
www.manipulatearts.co.uk
Kulturprojekte Berlin
kulturprojekte.berlin/en
A Tarumba - Teatro de Marionetas
www.tarumba.org
Dschungel Wien
www.dschungelwien.at
Go Figure! Festival for Figurteater og Visuell Scenekunst i Oslo
gofigure.no
Project supported by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme.
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