Wake Show (Spanish: Función velorio, lit.'Wake function') 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.
