The Flower Queen is a play about a little girl becoming imaginary friends with the monster under her bed. This is punctuated by sacred dance performed by the Tree Maiden. The play draws on information from The White Goddess by Robert Graves. The plot is structured around a story hidden in the sacred tree alphabet that this book explores. The alphabet describes the life cycle of the Deity, and the dances of the Tree Maidens mark major life stages in that story. The play features music of the Flowery, and runs for an hour.
The Flower Queen utilizes a technique from chaos magic that is like Carl Jung’s conception of the Shadow. A problem within the personality is externalized as a tulpa, an autonomous imaginary construct. Through interactions with this imaginary being, the main character integrates the negative personality aspect into herself in a constructive way. In the play, the young girl’s overactive imagination will not let her fall asleep, and is embodied in the monster. Through her play, the monster teaches her the relationship between girl and monster, and how to take responsibility for the creation of her own reality, giving her power over it. In the end, she goes sleep.