Ultrashow

Ultrashow is a comedy monologue in which Miguel Noguera takes the stage of the Sala Grande at Teatros Luchana on his own. Over the course of the show, some twenty or thirty ideas, mental images and thoughts follow one another in no strict order. All the material comes from the notes and drawings the artist accumulates every day.

The staging relies on a screen on which his own drawings, images found on the internet and photographs taken with his mobile phone are projected. Although each idea has its title jotted down on paper and the same repertoire of ideas is performed over several months, the register includes improvised passages and unexpected digressions. The result oscillates between a didactic exposition and a piece of theatre.

The tone of the delivery can be vehement, with echoes of a television preacher or an authoritarian leader, and at other moments it becomes colloquial, almost like that of a teenage student. The ideas are not funny in themselves; the humour comes from how they are presented. The show starts with a brief improvised song, on which Miguel Noguera comments on what has just happened, and ends with the reading of a farewell that is about the show itself.