Transport: Fasten your seatbelts
Aug 28 – 30, 2026
Erottajankatu 7, 00130 Helsinki
Lithuanian Klaipėdos lėlių teatras: Transport: Fasten your seatbelts
Space tourism promises new opportunities—but at what cost? Is travelling to space true progress, or an escape from the problems we have left unresolved on Earth
Transport: Fasten your Seatbelts! is a dazzling, ironic satire that invites us to look at a fractured world from a distance—from above—where its contradictions become sharper and harder to ignore.
At the center of the story is Megan, an ambitious young woman raised to believe that anything is possible if you want it badly enough.
When she receives the most prestigious birthday gift imaginable—a luxurious trip to space—it seems her dreams have finally come true.
But the view from space reveals another side of the story: beneath the shiny surface of technological progress lies the growing social inequality, environmental exhaustion, and a blind faith in escape as a solution.
Fasten Your Seatbelts! raises pressing questions about the future of luxury space tourism— offering new horizons while simultaneously exposing deep-rooted inequality and environmental consequences.
Puppet Theatre Sampo
28.-30.8.2026
Performances:
28.8. at 19.00-19.45
29.-30.8. at 15.00-15.45
Tickets 25€, age recommendation 15+
Performed in English, surtitles in Finnish
