←Recommendations of Faerie Ring

Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn's heartbreaking yet hopeful piece tackles postpartum depression and motherhood in a way that had tears streaming down my face in less than 10 pages! It's a wonderful call to action for anyone who is experiencing PPD or depression that they are not alone and help is all around us. Beautifully done - bravo!

PPD isn’t spoken about often enough, so this allegory is certainly welcome! It brings a whole new layer to the phrase, ‘away with the fairies’.

This is a sweet little play that makes us all think about a couple of things: Hurtful words, selfishness, and, the old "wait til you have kids of your own" saying.

Another magical and heart-breakingly human short piece by the master miniature magical world builder Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn. We always have options, but we don't always see our own inner strength and we don't always know how to ask for help. Just lovely. Give the super audio production on Theatrical Shenanigans a listen: https://theatricalshenanigans.podbean.com/e/international-womens-day-sp…

Breaking cycles of despair and of abandonment is the hoped for outcome of this magical exploration of the difficulty of motherhood. These women share painful truths that aren't acknowledged enough in the world. I was left with the hope that Bridget would find the resources to cope with her severe post-partum depression as she makes her final decision in the play.

One of the things I love about fantasy and fairytales is that it allows us to discuss difficult topics from within the safety of a magic circle. This is a beautiful ten minute play about motherhood and its difficulties as one's autonomy disappears for the benefit of a child, but it also provides a caution and guidance on how to find one's way and why it is important to fight the call of the fairies.

What a gorgeous fairytale allegory! This stunning play explores the burdens placed on mothers of infants, especially when there is an element of PPD involved. This play allows us to meet two generations of women, allowing us to see the cyclical nature of the issue as it perpetuates itself (and as patterns are broken), as well as showing us what happens if loved ones fail to notice and help. It's such a gentle, thoughtful approach to opening up conversations about a serious, very common issue. Really lovely work!

I read this on a whim, intrigued by the title, and was stunned by its beauty and power. It spoke to me both as a lover of fairy tales and as a mother—the newborn days weren't that long ago for me. I'll be watching this playwright!

A fairy tale that's far more in the spirit of Brother's Grimm than Disney, Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn's Fairie Ring is a tale of a young mother coping with depression and the dark thoughts that come with it. Heartbreaking, yet ultimately reaffirming, this is excellently done.

They never tell us about Cinderella’s mother. Or Snow White’s. But in this heartbreaking tale, we may have some inkling as to what might have happened. We want to believe that postpartum depression is some modern affliction, but the truth of life is that it is scary. Inexplicably sorrowful and difficult to endure. Jackie weaves a fairy tale for the lost mothers and their children.