STAR KEEPER

CREATED & PERFORMED BY EMILY MICHAELS KING

SEPTEMBER 2024

STAR KEEPER is a searing solo performance that opens the Rubbermaid tub of childhood to examine innocence, its tragic loss, and the harrowing journey of remembering. A shimmering world of stuffed animals, dress up clothes, and imagination, meets the strange realms of memory and the shadowy places of our subconscious where secrets hide. Mixing movement, light beams, VHS tape recordings, and the colors in your crayon box, STAR KEEPER sees the unseeable and illuminates the power of survival. The bravery it takes to venture into the darkness and look your past dead in the eyes. The wonder of embracing all of who you are as powerful and worthy; the messy, dark, and hurt, right along with the glorious.

So grab a flashlight. And the outstretched hand of your child self. (Don’t worry, I’ve got all of us.) And let’s go hunting for monsters, treasure, treasure, monsters…