Life As It Is (More or Less): Performance Edition - Softcover

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9781957763347: Life As It Is (More or Less): Performance Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1957763345 ISBN 13: 9781957763347
Publisher: Lemery House Press, 2025

Synopsis

Witty, fearless, and unmistakably modern, Fanny Fern turned everyday life into art. Writing in the mid-1800s-when women's voices were seldom heard-she transformed ordinary moments of marriage, work, motherhood, and exhaustion into sharp, funny, and deeply human reflections on resilience and grace.

Life As It Is (More or Less) captures Fern's honesty and humor in a fresh adaptation designed for 21st-century readers, educators, and performers. This Performance Edition combines timeless essays with modern storytelling notes, performance insights, and new monologues inspired by Fern's originals. It invites readers to explore how laughter can still challenge convention and how truth, spoken aloud, can bridge centuries.

Ideal for classrooms, reader's theatre, and solo performance, this edition includes guidance on pacing, tone, and emotional delivery-tools that help bring Fern's natural rhythm and wit to life. Through both historical context and contemporary voice, it reminds us that honesty and empathy never go out of style.

Part of the Memories in Ink collection from the True Voice Shorts series, Life As It Is (More or Less) celebrates the enduring power of voice-honest, imperfect, and unafraid.

For actors, readers, and anyone who believes that ordinary life deserves to be heard, not hidden.

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Publisher
Lemery House Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1957763345
ISBN 13 
9781957763347
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
50