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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 1m
Karen Hartman
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?
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.
“Hartman's smart-crazy dialogue elicits a constant low roar of happy laughter from the audience.” – Broward Palm Beach New Times
“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
Behind the Scenes of Goldie, Max and Milk
Script Notes: Goldie, Max and Milk
Karen Hartman is a finalist for the 2023 international Susan Smith Blackburn prize. In 2022, her work launched VOLT at 59e59 Theaters, an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author: New Golden Age (Primary Stages); The Lucky Star (T ...
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