Land of Never Lack

Land of Never-Lack combines W.B. Yeats’ 1889 play Land of Heart’s Desire with a new story written by Harold Jaffe and Gwen Kelly-Masterton in a melange of dream-like bitter-sweetness and energetic whimsy. In 18th-century Sligo, newlywed Maire wishes for an escape from her stifling new life–could the strange child that arrives at her in-laws’ house be the answer? Meanwhile, elsewhere and elsewhen, a mischievous Sprite gets more than she bargained for when she tries to “replace” Siobhan, the human child she kidnapped by accident. As each protagonist must choose between Humanity and Faery, the stories ask: if you had a chance to leave behind all pain, hunger, and loss, and live forever in a world where you’d never want anything you couldn’t have, would you take it? If suffering and mortality make us human, what is being human worth? Is it better to be wise, or happy? Would you rather give up freedom, or love?