Goldie, Max & Milk
by Karen Hartman

Name: Goldie, Max & Milk
Brand: Karen Hartman
SKU: 9780573711282
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

Off-Broadway

Goldie, Max & Milk Book Cover — Goldie, Max & Milk Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

105 mins Present Day Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Press 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

Characters

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