One Beautiful Bale Night at Fort Forno

Friday, 21.08.2026. 21:00. h

Teatar Fort Forno performs One Beautiful Bale Night at Fort Forno fortress, a music-theatre story by Marijana Nola directed by Robert Raponja.

The performance takes place on 21 August 2026 at 21:00 at Fort Forno fortress. It is performed in English, admission is free, and the production brings together performers who act, sing and play music.

A Bale story between music, cabaret and vaudeville

One Beautiful Bale Night is not a conventional drama divided neatly between spoken scenes and musical numbers. The project by Marijana Nola and Robert Raponja is shaped as a music-theatre story, with cabaret and vaudeville elements, so the action develops through song, movement, stage rhythm and the relationship with the place where it is performed. The choice of English matters as well: the Bale theme is not closed only to local audiences, but opens itself to visitors who arrive at Fort Forno without knowing the local stories in advance. Music is by Diego Vitasović, and the performance features Anastasia Groshko, Juraj Devin, Lara Živolić Agaj, Davor Tarbuk, Jure Černeha, Lorenzo Radović, Ivor Lakić and Domagoj Dobrila. That cast explains why the announcement has to speak about ensemble energy: the audience is not only listening to a story about Bale, but watching a performance in which acting, voice and live music carry one another.

Fort Forno fortress as a stage

For this performance, Fort Forno fortress is more than an address: Austro-Hungarian architecture, open air and the distance from the centre of Bale change the rhythm of the evening. The performance remains the main point. Fort Forno is the place where a local subject, English language and music-theatre form can meet without the distance of a conventional indoor stage.

Accommodation in Bale

For One Beautiful Bale Night at Fort Forno fortress, staying in Bale keeps you close to the performance: Fort Forno is about 7 kilometres away, roughly ten minutes by car. Bale gives you a quiet base before and after the evening at the fortress: accommodation in Bale.