The actors of teatrOrtaet stage all the charm and fascination of the extraordinary Duse - d'Annunzio association, a relationship that united, passionately and artistically, two of the greatest personalities of fin de siécle Italian culture.

The show evokes an immortal love in its extraordinary "theatrical" dimension. D'Annunzio himself was aware of the need to narrate and mythologize his relationship with Duse through the novel-scandal "Il fuoco," an irreverent and brazen narrative that was accused of bringing insult to the Actress, but which Duse herself defended.

All clamor now extinguished and forgotten, L'Acqua e "Il Fuoco" is presented as a "traveling show, " made up of biographical, poetic and epistolary quotations, evoking the intimacy and vital energy of this overflowing passion: from the overwhelming beginning, to the golden years lived among the hills of Fiesole, from the first betrayals to the sufferings of abandonment, to the dramatic epilogue with the announcement to the Poet of the Actress' sudden death during a tour in the United States.