Between the two world wars, the authorities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia did not allow professional Hungarian language theatres to operate in the country. As a result, amateur theatre movements were established in many municipalities. In the period from 1918 to 1940, there were nearly three hundred Hungarian amateur theatre companies in the province of Vojvodina, and they had two thousand two hundred premieres during these years. Although their repertoire initially consisted almost exclusively of pre-war hits, operettas, folk plays, and adaptations of the most popular productions of the Budapest theatres, they occasionally performed works by Hungarian authors from Vojvodina that were not without social reflection. The work of these companies is invaluable not only in preserving national consciousness but also in recording the stories of the formation of a Hungarian minority identity in Yugoslavia, or more precisely in Vojvodina.