'Transforming' women's lives: Bobby Baker's performances of 'Daily Life'

In an earlier issue of New Theatre Quarterly, NTQ55 (August 1998), Marcia B lumberg examined the setting of the kitchen in performances by Bobby Baker and Jeanne Goosen, arguing for the 'transitional and transgressive' possibi lities of this domesticum-performance space. Here, Elaine Aston returns to the 'kitchen' in Bobby Baker's performances of 'daily life.' The article ex amines Baker's 'language' of food which 'speaks' of domesticity, and her co njunction of comic playing and the hysterical marking of the body, to show how her performance work constitutes an angry, feminist protest at the lack of social transformation in women's lives.