Transport: Cargo

Transport: Cargo sheds light on the burning issue of growing freight road traffic, which has increased by as much as 30 percent in recent years. Between 20 and 50 million trucks drive on the world's roads every day. The performance takes us into the world of global trade, where speed and accessibility promote economic growth, but also bring negative consequences, such as overexploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution and violation of labor rights. The story follows a trucker who is under severe time pressure from his employer, while obstacles along the way only add to his stressful situation. The night brings a chance encounter, and the morning ends with a shocking event that encourages thorough reflection on moral and ethical issues, and above all on our responsibility in an exploitative and exhausting hyper-consumer world. 

Cargo is part of the Creative Europe Transport project, which was created at the initiative of Slovenian director Tin Grabnar and connects six theaters from Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Poland in the 2024/2025. Genre-diverse performances, underlined by a hyper-realistic miniature visual image and a complex soundscape, bring the audience together in an intimate confrontation with the pressing issues of modern society. 

The performance is part of the Transport project, which is created with the support of the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The content presented in no way reflects the position of the European Commission.       

Justification of the selector of  13TH BIENNIAL OF PUPPETRY ARTISTS OF SLOVENIA
Transport: Cargo is the first part of an extremely interesting international project in which director Tin Grabnar has focused on one of the most pressing problems of our time: travel as a constant in life, a necessity and a way of life. What makes the project particularly interesting is the fact that it depicts life on the road and life as a journey using stop-animation, which fragments the movement and transforms it into a series of static poses. A journey, like life, becomes a series of fragments and fleeting moments. Through the eyes of puppetry, stop-animation negates animation as its current essence and turns a new page in the development of contemporary puppet expression.

More about the entire Transport project on the website www.project-transport.eu

Crew and cast

Director and author of the concept Tin Grabnar 
Dramaturge Ajda Rooss 
Visual designer and scenographer Sara Slivnik 
Costume designer Tina Bonča 
Composer and sound designer Mateja Starič 
Lighting designer Gregor Kuhar 
Designer of 3D models and figurines Aleksander Andželović 
Inventor of the wireless lighting system Matej Lazar
Assistants of the author of the visual image Katarina Planinc and Laura Krajnc 
Proofreader Metka Damjan
Actors Vesna Vončina and Uroš Kaurin
Lighting master Gregor Dvornik 
Sound master Aljaž Fredi Novak 

LGM and LGL workshop masters 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 

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 and Ajda Rooss

We would like to thank journalist Luka Bregar from Radio Slovenia for reading the radio news about the accident on the oil platform.

Premiere — September 2024