lavastuste
Lavastus is the Estonian term for a theatre production or staging. Lavastuste is the genitive plural form and is used when talking about multiple productions as a group or in descriptive phrases, for example kriitika lavastuste kohta or lavastuste repertuaar. The concept covers live performances such as plays, operas, and dance works, along with the artistic and technical work involved in putting a script on stage.
In Estonian theatre discourse, lavastused (plural nominative) and lavastuste appear in discussions of a theatre’s repertoire,
Linguistically, lavastus derives from the Estonian word for stage or production, with the suffix -ste forming