Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco
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Fol. I · Theatre

Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco

Lima · Peru
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Fol. I — The voice

Theatre.

I

Dramatis Personæ

Lima, early 1990s. A car bomb seven floors away. Hostages. A curfew. Three writers who keep meeting to write. Lucas hasn't written anything since his only novel; Marla writes about a wife who stabs her husband and doesn't know why; Juan is obsessed with a man who draws on the walls of public restrooms. A play about what writers do with other people's pain. And their own.

II

Lies We Tell Ourselves

A playwright who spent ten years caring for her father and made decisions she doesn't apologize for. A man who lost fifty kilos looking for something that wasn't in his body. They don't know each other. They share a restaurant, different tables, each trying to reach someone who never listens — until they find each other in the impossible reality of theatre.

Lima 2012 · 2015 · 2025 · New York 2013 · Buenos Aires 2024
III

Luz Oscura

Written with Julia Thays. Amanda Luna, a television actress, will always be Sofi: the little girl with blue ribbons the country remembers and she needs to forget. She returns from Madrid without work, without a clear identity. From a hospital bed, between sleep and waking, she begins to devise the only plan no one can carry out for her.

★ Best Direction & Production Award, El Oficio Crítico 2016 · Lima 2016 · 2017 · 2024
IV

It Never Rains in Lima

A crumbling family mansion barely holds under the weight of those who live in it: an old man clinging to it, a son lost in his obsessions, and a granddaughter trying to keep what's left standing. The arrival of three strangers strains a balance that was already broken. Then it starts to rain.

Lima 2016 · New York 2013
V

El hombre del subsuelo

Written with Josué Méndez. A friendless man, locked inside himself, convinced of his own lucidity. One night he crashes the farewell party of a man he despises, tries to humiliate him and ends up exposed. Based on Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground: the one enemy no one escapes.

Lima 2014 · 2015 · Arequipa 2016
VI

The French Play

A theatre. Any theatre. Tonight. Onstage, a company has been performing Les Champs du Péché for months — a nineteenth-century French melodrama: lovers, inheritances, ghosts, swords. Then the lead actor starts to forget his lines. Is it the clown's fault?

★ Carlotta Festival of New Plays · New Haven 2009 · Dallas 2023 — excerpt ↓
VII

Gay Play

Didi Coquette is a drag queen with an impeccable show and a heart that won't quite let go. Reynaldo, her best friend, is the one who knows her best. This weekend, in the borrowed apartment of a mysterious banker, they'll drink too much, they'll dance, and Reynaldo will confess something that will change everything.

★ Yale Cabaret · New Haven 2008 · Lima 2023
VIII

Threesome

Three ways of loving that begin as a game and end where no one wanted to go. A woman who refuses to choose, a man who loves someone who may not exist, and a bond that crosses a line impossible to undo. Here desire is not clean, love is not enough, and the truth always arrives too late.

★ El Oficio Crítico Award 2021, Best Production · Lima 2000 · 2004 · 2008 · 2011 · 2021 · 2023 · Rio 2014
Other Plays
Dramatis Personæ · Theatre
Fol. II — The image

Film.

Cuadrilátero
I

Cuadrilátero

The life of Adriana, her husband, and their two children unfolds with military precision, but the delicate family balance is altered by her pregnancy. In Adriana's mind, there is only room for four. The five family members fight one another to secure one of the four spots.

Director Daniel Rodríguez Risco · Screenplay co-written with Daniel Rodríguez Risco
El Vientre

El Vientre

Dir. Daniel Rodríguez Risco · 2014

Mercedes, a young orphan, falls into the clutches of Silvia, a widow obsessed with motherhood who manipulates her into getting pregnant. She will do everything in her power to keep the baby. Even kill.

★ HBO Latin America · Nom. Best Director, Vancouver IFF
Aj Zombies!

Aj Zombies!

Dir. Daniel Martín Rodríguez · 2017

As the world is wiped out by a zombie outbreak that began in Peru, Claudia and Felipe discover that social differences matter little when a drunk and a night watchman are your only hope. A romantic comedy, road movie, musical and zombie film, all in one.

★ Cult favorite · Produced by Studio+ (France)
Other Screenplays
El Vientre · Film
Fol. III — The word

Fiction.

El experimento de una familia
★ Available · Editorial Clorinda · 2024

El experimento de una familia

Only when Franco Giraldo discovers a notebook written by his late father does he begin to understand the true nature of the bonds that have held his family together. Or torn it apart. As he unravels his father's sinister character, his manipulations and lies, Franco — about to be married — also discovers who he is. And what he is capable of.

Crónica de la peste
★ Available · Editorial Clorinda · 2026

Crónica de la peste

Pedro and Álex are separated by the pandemic. As Pedro writes a diary that becomes the chronicle of a world on hold, fear for his partner and the threat of the virus lead him to discover a way of telling a life: his own, another's, or that of any man who desires men. A contemporary love novel.

Unpublished
El experimento de una familia · Fiction
Fol. IV — The note

Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco

Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco
Gonzalo · Lima
25+ plays,
8 films,
2 novels

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