Ultrashow

Ultrashow is a comedy monologue from Barcelona in which a single performer, on stage, unfolds some twenty or thirty ideas and mental images drawn from their daily notes and drawings.

The show is built as a succession of ideas that the performer develops without following a strict order. It opens with an improvised song and concludes with the reading of a farewell text that reflects on the show itself.

On stage, the performer alternates a vehement register, close to that of a preacher or an authoritarian leader, with a softer, more informal one, similar to that of a teenager talking with breezy self-assurance. To illustrate some ideas, they use images projected on a screen: their own drawings, material found online and photographs taken on a mobile phone.

The piece sits midway between lecture and theatre, with improvised passages and digressions that arise during the performance. Its approximate running time is one hour and twenty minutes.