Last night I watched he Ubu side of the WoyUbu, and the experience is like being inside the mind of someone with multiple personality disorder. Fully formed personalities exist in there, each striving for dominance. The personalities are crude, often unpleasant, usually infantile - but also smart, conniving, aware, self-aware. The whole media apparatus of creating and managing the images that are projected from the Ubu side to the Woyzeck side seem part of their calculated manipulation of ... their body.
From this side of the wall the character of Woyzeck in the other play appears to be the body that contains all these Ubu personalities. Looking through the surveillance cameras at the action on the Woyzeck side, is akin to looking out of his eyes. He seems to be trying to be a good and unified being. Sitting inside his mind you can understand and even sympathize with his stress as he deals with a cruel world, and struggles with his unruly mind. But its all very far away, minimized, almost unimportant. Meanwhile the life of the mind is exploding in all directions up close and in living color, and you are part of it.
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