The beautiful rocky Tacchi with their characteristic flat summits rise proudly against the blue Ogliastra skies, immortalised by the pencil of the talented Galleppini in the exploits of his most famous son, Tex Willer.

In this location, among the Cannonau vineyards, the Mediterranean scrub and the sea that peeps out on the horizon, Jerzu and Ulassai overlook and from 4 to 9 August will host the 13th edition of Ogliastra Teatro Festival dei Tacchi. The eagerly awaited summer event curated by Cada Die Teatro, in collaboration with the municipalities of Jerzu and Ulassai, the Cantina Antichi Poderi and the contribution of the Sardinia Region, the Province and the GAL Ogliastra and the Fondazione Banco di Sardegna, which every year attracts numerous spectators from all over Sardinia and beyond.

A festival dedicated to theatre and nature where the places are not just settings but real protagonists and elements of performance that do not just demand spectators but real participants. Among the prominent names of the 2012 program: Laura Curino, pioneer of narrative theatre, with her signature song Olivetti, dedicated to the figure of the entrepreneur from Ivrea Camillo Olivetti, a brilliant nonconformist, inventor of the first typewriter entirely made in Italy. Peppino Mazzotta, talented and eclectic Calabrian actor known to the small screen audience for having played Inspector Fazio in the successful TV drama “Il commissario Montalbano”, who will bring to the stage the award-winning Radio Argo, a monologue that takes up themes and protagonists of the Greek myth reinterpreting them in a contemporary and original way. Dario Vergassola who after the television successes of “Parla con me” returns to the theatre to present Sparla con me, a collection of the most hilarious moments of his many meetings in the Dandini living room; welcome return to Ogliastra for the writer-journalist from Cagliari Francesco Abate who, accompanied by the musicians Marco Noce and Matteo Sau, presents È colpa tua; and also Guascone Teatro, Gatti Mèzzi; from Sardinia the Ogliastra natives Rossolevante and Girasolo, the talented Rita Atzeri, Gavino Murgia and of course the Cada Die Teatro.