This isn’t a break up show. It’s about mar­ine sci­ence.

a girl on the beach with a heart balloon looking pensive

So begins the blurb for this pro­duc­tion com­ing up at Bats Theatre from July 10–14.

A play about whales seems to be very very timely for Wel­ling­ton right now, but this one has been in the mak­ing for a long time.

“Four years ago, my friend Jean told me, “Hil­ary, no one is good enough for you”. Which soun­ded a lot like, “Hil­ary, you are destined to be alone forever”. But any­way, this show isn’t about me. It’s about a whale.

At around the same time, I found out about the 52-Hertz Whale; a hybrid fin/blue whale that emits a mat­ing call at a fre­quency no oth­er whale can hear. Whales rely on their songs to attract a mate so the the­ory goes that this whale is swim­ming around, call­ing out into an empty void for a mate who will nev­er hear her. Long story short, this whale is basic­ally doomed.”

Will the whale ever find love? Will Hil­ary?

Only one way to find out…