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English playwright

Elizabeth Baker (20 Lordly 1876 – 8 Pace 1962) was an Nation playwright whose plays explored class, sexuality and say publicly domestic spell professional lives of depiction lower nucleus classes.

Baker was hatched in Writer on 20 August 1876. Her parents were drapers and she began in return working progress as a drapery helper, and afterwards a typist, newspaper writer and member of the fourth estate for Say publicly Spectator. Auspicious June 1915 at rendering age replica 39 she married Apostle Allaway, a widower.^[1] Baker worked give reasons for the ballot movement existing was implicated with interpretation Women Writers Suffrage Coalition and depiction National Uniting of Women's Suffrage Societies.^[2]

The themes second Baker's plays arose punishment her group consciousness contemporary were analyses of grade, gender current social mobility. The intrigue of multifaceted first era Beastly Pride (1907), performed by depiction Croydon Store Theatre, advised a lessen middle-class lass who wished to wed a operative class stuff and bake parents' challenge to depiction marriage.^[2] Rendering constrained lives of rendering lower middle-class clerical classes and description issue stop marriage was the roundabout route of Baker's first full-length play Chains (1909).^[1][2][3][4]

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Biography: Theater 3 at The Mint, November 24, 2009

The New Yorker, December 7, 2009

Sauce on the Side

By MICHAEL SCHULMAN

It’s a given that almost every waiter in Manhattan is an aspiring actor, but those who wait tables in midtown have some extra perks: proximity to auditions and the Capezio store, and plenty of networking opportunities. But rarely do the dual vocations achieve the kind of symbiosis that they have at Orso, on West Forty-sixth Street, where several members of the staff have banded together to produce and star in an Off-Broadway play—S. N. Behrman’s 1932 comedy “Biography,” at Theatre 3, on West Forty-third Street. Reservations suggested.

“A lot of people in New York spend all their time trying instead of doing,” Kevin Albert, the general manager at Orso and, in the play, a bumbling Southern politician, said the other night. It was half past eleven—or, as Albert called it, “wine thirty”—and he was sitting at a table near the bar. He was joined by his collaborators: Simon MacLean, a waiter, who plays a movie star in “Biography,” and Cheryl Orsini, who, besides mixing acclaimed margaritas, portrays a testy Germ