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Goldie, Max & Milk

  • Karen Hartman
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573711282

Max, a single lesbian, just gave birth and has no clue how to nurse her newborn. Can Goldie, an Orthodox Jewish lactation consultant, guide Max into motherhood? Or will conflicting family values get the better of them both?

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Drugs, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for Best Regional Play (2011)
    Nominee! Carbonell Award for Best New Play in Florida (2011)
It's 2009; Max is unemployed, her house is falling apart, and her ex, Lisa, is on the loose. On top of all that, she has no clue how to nurse her newborn baby. Can Goldie, an Orthodox Jewish lactation consultant, guide Max into motherhood? Or will conflicting family values get the better of them both?

Goldie, Max & Milk is a play about cultural differences, motherhood, and the many ways to love children.
REVIEWS:

"Hartman’s smart-crazy dialogue elicits a constant low roar of happy laughter from the audience... The point of Goldie, Max & Milk isn't that the liberal atheists or the tradition cleaving conservatives have all the answers. It's that the answers won’t mean anything if we can’t talk to each other."

 Broward Palm Beach New Times

"Hartman skillfully creates a sturdy architecture for the evening and peoples it with delightfully quirky complex characters who teeter close to Cartoonland, but never fall over the edge. But it’s her language and the ideas she investigates that elevate the work to the level of something well worth seeing."

 Florida Theatre On Stage

Premiere Production: Goldie, Max & Milk premiered at Florida Stage Company in West Palm Beach, FL, on December 15, 2010. It made its off-Broadway debut, produced by Mary J. Davis and MBL Productions, at 59E59 Theaters on May 1, 2022.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 4F

  • MAX – Female, 30s. Big-hearted. A social worker. Postpartum, therefore subject to emotional swings that are not part of her base personality.
    GOLDIE – 40ish. A lactation consultant. Domineering in a comforting way. Orthodox Jewish.
    MIKE – 20s. A well-meaning slacker waking up to consequences.
    LISA – 30s. Max’s ex and Mike’s sister. A lawyer. Often seems calm, reasonable and warm.
    SHAYNA – Late teens. Goldie's daughter. Sullen but quick.

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    It's 2009; Max is unemployed, her house is falling apart, and her ex, Lisa, is on the loose. On top of all that, she has no clue how to nurse her newborn baby. Can Goldie, an Orthodox Jewish lactation consultant, guide Max into motherhood? Or will conflicting family values get the better of them both?

    Goldie, Max & Milk     is a play about cultural differences, motherhood, and the many ways to love children.

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