Wake Show


Wake Show is a 2020 Peruvian drama film directed by Aldo Miyashiro from a screenplay he co-wrote with Abril Cárdenas and Erika Villalobos, based on the play of the same name by Miyashiro. The cast is made up of Reynaldo Arenas, Ximena Arroyo, Haysen Percovich, Manuel Calderón, Virginia Mayo, Diego Pérez and Christopher Gaona.

Synopsis

Leonardo Oviedo is an ambitious theater director, whose works have not achieved the success he dreamed of. Looking for some recognition, he decides to write a play for four characters; a single performance, where all the actors have to die on stage. He chooses an old alcoholic actor, an overweight actress, an endearing boy with an intellectual disability, and a black actor, who has only been chosen because of the color of his skin. The work generates a media stir in both the good and bad sense, while the director is willing to fulfill this repugnant artistic ideal.

Cast

Release

It had its world premiere on October 23, 2020, at the 27th Austin Film Festival, then screened in early June 2021 at the New York City Independent Film Festival, in early August of the same year at the 39th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, and at the end of March 2022 at the 6th Houston Latin Film Festival.