Staging Roberto Succo: On Violence, HIV and AIDS, the Nuclear Family, and Wedging Possibility Against Hopelessness
After these brief encounters with the killer’s story, Koltès knew he wanted to write a Succo play, but he was more interested in myth than documentary. In one interview, he said “no, I’m not investigating, I definitely don’t want to know more. This Roberto Succo has the great advantage that he is legendary.” The playwright started writing shortly after seeing the news of the Succo story, without much further research aside from the facts he’d heard on the news. He eventually titled the play Roberto Zucco, after an alias that Succo used to evade border agents when a warrant was out for his arrest under his actual surname.