Roberto Zucco

In Paris, Bernard-Marie Koltès opened a door. In 2013, I walked through it.

What began as an encounter with Koltès became the Roberto Zucco Project, a collective adventure born in Paris. Twelve young actors with the same desire: to create, to search, to meet one another through theatre.

I was drawn to Roberto Zucco not as the portrait of a criminal, but as a disturbing figure moving through the fractures of contemporary society, between freedom and confinement, intimacy and violence, desire and isolation.

My direction began there: with the body, the word, the space between people.

The project grew from the rehearsal room into an artistic and intercultural journey, connecting Paris and Greece. In 2013, the work travelled to Marseille, during the city’s year as European Capital of Culture.