THE HILLS HAVE CRAZY EYES - Woman in a Landscape – Munich kammerspiele 2024

“The Hills Have Crazy Eyes - Woman in a Landscape” deals with sexism and racism in the history of alpinism and nature perception set within a mountain allegory. A text and music assemblage of research and autobiographical experience combine to address violence and bigotry in a sentient search for new strategies and ways of coping and healing.

McCarthy's performance is rooted in five years of research and personal experience as an alpinist, culminating in a poetic and philosophical reflection on power dynamics, structures of violence and efforts to deconstruct, rethink and overcome, reminiscent of Sisyphus' struggles told astutely through a uniquely female contemporary guise.

The mountain as a symbol of aggression has become porous; the glaciers are melting and the rocks are crumbling. Summit fixation has become superfluous. A renaissance in the perception of nature occurs, told through a group of melting figures that have immersed themselves, been overgrown, and thus are able to communicate with the mountain as a living organism.

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