Life As It Is (More or Less) | Performance Edition

Querida Funck

ISBN 10: 1957763345 / ISBN 13: 9781957763347

Published by Lemery House Press, 2025

About this Item

Life As It Is (More or Less) | Performance Edition | Querida Funck | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Lemery House Press | EAN 9781957763347 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life As It Is (More or Less) | Performance Edition
• Publisher: Lemery House Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1957763345
• ISBN 13: 9781957763347
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 4D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 4 millimeters depth
• Weight: 124 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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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.