At the Third Age University in Ajdovščina in the Western part of Slovenia Ada Bačar has been leading and directing ŽAR, an older adults’ theatre study circle. The study circle has been staging its members’ own plays concerned with historical and current topics and events from their immediate local environment. Their playwriting and playing plays have become a way of learning not only for the study circle members themselves, but also for their audiences. Since each of their dramatic topics is related to local phenomena and events, the plays have been written in the original Vipava Valley dialect. In parallel members of the study circle have been drawing upon the local puppet theatre tradition as the very first Slovenian puppet theatre play was staged in this area and can be traced back to the end of the 19th century. The study circle, however. has staged this play in the standard Slovenian language to perform it all over Slovenia. Now, the study circle is performing it in smaller localities, kindergartens, schools, old people‘s homes. The study circle ŽAR also received an educational award of the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education.Študijski krožek za gledališko ustvarjanje pri Univerzi za tretje življenjsko obdobje pod vodstvom mentorice Ade Bačar pripravlja avtorske gledališke predstave. Teme za igre jemljejo iz neposrednega lokalnega okolja in gledališče postane pot učenja za nastopajoče in občinstvo. Tema vsake predstave obdela posamezen utrip javnega življenja. Jezik je originalno vipavsko narečje. Poleg dramskih predstav so posegli tudi v domačo tradicijo lutkarstva. Prvi slovenski lutkar in prva lutkovna predstava sega na konec 19. stoletja. Glede na vseslovenski pomen so za gledališki jezik uporabili knjižno slovenščino. Gledališče približajo ljudem v malih krajih, vrtcih, šolah, domovih za starejše. Študijski krožek ŽAR je prejel slovensko priznanje Andragoškega centra Slovenije. Gledališče je neizčrpen vir učenja in osebnostne rasti nastopajočih in občinstva
