Let the Whale Die

By Meg Shadler 
Directed by Angharad Jones

Amy Whalehouse is an orca. She’s also the Aquarium’s biggest star. 

And Girl has one job: to look after the whale. 

Then Amy dies. 

Girl was there. 

Now everyone wants to know why. 

The media wants answers. The internet wants someone to blame. Her husband wants the truth. Her manager wants accountability. Her mother wants to spin her own story. 

Girl wants none of it. 

 As the pressure closes in, Girl refuses to become the person everyone else needs her to be. 

New Perspectives premieres  Meg Shadler’s darkly funny, provocative new play, a strange and unsettling journey into the mind of a woman who’s stopped explaining herself and has no intention of giving people what they expect. 

How far would you go to take back control?