←Recommendations of Kentucky Lemonade

Julie Zaffarano’s Kentucky Lemonade is the ideal blend of sweetness and tartness, just like its namesake. What a wonderful opportunity for four mature female actors. Perfect pacing. Sparking dialogue. Riveting conflict. And Dorothy’s malapropisms had me laughing out loud. Terrific!

This is the play women actors need and want. The dialog moves with the speed of family who know how to get a rise out of one another. I felt connected to each character from the very beginning. I laughed out loud, but never lost the ache of loss at the center of this fine play. Put this play on! Your actors and audience will thank you. Also: I'm now wondering who in my life is a "Mary" and who is a "Martha"--you will, too!

I was hooked from the VERY FIRST LINE! It made me desire more creative dialogue and Julie doesn’t disappoint. The poignant relationships between two generations, the fresh dialogue, the superstitions and matching birthmarks, it’s quite an enjoyable ride. Kudos Julie!

Four complex, authentic and relateable female characters make this piece memorable and moving. Zaffarano blends humor and heart into a story of grief and family ties that feels both familiar and surprising.

A wonderful play about family and family secrets. Zaffarano gives us an ode to the bonds of family and even if we can't always pick our families, we can certainly come to appreciate them and lean on them in times of need. Kentucky Lemonade is a beautiful title and the play itself is a rich tapestry of well-written characters and situations that, although familiar, gives this play its strength and its family one that everyone should get to know.

A fantastic play about the craziness of family with all it's secrets and arguments that you wouldn't trade for the world. Entertaining and well done!

I was hooked from the first line of this totally engrossing play about two sisters, their mom and aunt and the secrets they’re juggling in the wake of their father/husband/brother-in-law’s death. Zaffarano’s play has four fabulous roles for middle-aged and older women and contains a wonderful mixture of humor and great poignancy. I would love to see this on stage.

I love the ladies of Kentucky Lemonade...I feel I know them, with their bickering, and teasing and loving each other. And even after a funeral and a revelation that changes one of their lives, they return to being a family in the best way.

There is a lightly scented whiff of the Southern Gothic family drama hovering over this poignant comedy, despite its being set in Cleveland. Secrets, squabbles, death, and religious superstitions are expertly mixed by Zaffarano into a tart, sweet, and smooth cocktail that goes down easy but nonetheless keeps you enough off balance to enjoy the buzz, but still feel the sting as the bourbon kicks in. Terrific, touching work, with great roles for older actresses to sink their teeth into.

Like Long Island iced tea, Kentucky lemonade is not just a sugary drink. Julie Zaffarano's c. 90-minute play will attract theaters looking for all-female casts aged 50 or more. For much of its length until the explosion in Act Two, the dialogue is low-key but always holds our interest as the four well-differentiated characters confront a secret that threatens to disrupt their relationships, but is resolved so as to pull back from the brink of disaster. Suffice it to add that the "secret" is likely to be less shameful for younger women today.