Bobby Baker

Bobby Baker explores the performativity of subjectivity using theatrical and social ways to challenge the representational codes of gender. She focuses on making visible the hidden work of the housewife and mother. Bobby Baker presents herself in a white coat and her 'humble female work clothes' (Baker). She presents her self quite openly as a British middle-class woman. She is warm open and funny. She lulls the audience into a false sense of security and then smacks them in the face with important and difficult subject matters such as guilt, family, death and mental illness. The whole time reflecting upon the absurdities of everyday life. Bobby Baker has reflected the way women are confined to the home by inviting audiences into her own kitchen claiming that many performances happen in her kitchen everyday. This re-enforces the idea of the homemade and the accessible.