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TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming women's lives
T2 - Bobby Baker's performances of Daily Life
AU - Aston, Elaine
N1 - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=NTQ The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, New Theatre Quarterly 16 (1), pp 17-25 2000, © 2000 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2000/2
Y1 - 2000/2
N2 - In an earlier issue of New Theatre Quarterly, NTQ55 (August 1998), Marcia Blumberg examined the setting of the kitchen in performances by Bobby Baker and Jeanne Goosen, arguing for the 'transitional and transgressive' possibilities of this domesticum-performance space. Here, Elaine Aston returns to the 'kitchen' in Bobby Baker's performances of 'daily life.' The article examines Baker's 'language' of food which 'speaks' of domesticity, and her conjunction 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.
AB - In an earlier issue of New Theatre Quarterly, NTQ55 (August 1998), Marcia Blumberg examined the setting of the kitchen in performances by Bobby Baker and Jeanne Goosen, arguing for the 'transitional and transgressive' possibilities of this domesticum-performance space. Here, Elaine Aston returns to the 'kitchen' in Bobby Baker's performances of 'daily life.' The article examines Baker's 'language' of food which 'speaks' of domesticity, and her conjunction 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.
U2 - 10.1017/S0266464X00013427
DO - 10.1017/S0266464X00013427
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 17
EP - 25
JO - New Theatre Quarterly
JF - New Theatre Quarterly
SN - 0266-464X
IS - 1
ER -