Amateur theater activity reached its peak in the years after World War II. This was a period when the government invested a lot of money in it, which encouraged amateur culture, and slowly started to suppress professional "high" culture. But state support brought not only benefits, but also many concerns due to strict control and censorship. In Gorenjska, Prešeren's theater was the only professional theater in this period, and it was constantly facing conflicts with the authorities and fighting for existance. Most of theater visits in general were in Kranj, but we cannot talk about any kind of centralization, as amateur societies were well distributed in both urban and rural areas. Amateur theatrical activity lived in practically every village. Especially in smaller places several cultural activities were combined in one society. If the societies wanted to receive state funds, they had to send reports of their work to the Association of Cultural Organizations Kranj, which kept their data all this time.
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