Sarah Baker (yar wasan kwaikwayo ta ƙarni na 18)

**Sarah Baker** (1736/1737 - 20 ga Fabrairu 1816) 'Yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Ingila kuma manajan wasan kwaikwayo na ƙarshen zamanin Georgian wacce aikinta a Kent ya ɗauki fiye da shekaru 50. Duk da cewa ba ta da ilimi kuma tana fuskantar adawa mai tsanani daga abokan hamayyarta maza, ƙwarewar kasuwancinta ya sa ta zama ɗaya daga cikin mata mafi nasara a lokacinta.  

## Farkon aikina
An haifi Baker a Sarah Wakelin a kusan 1736/1737,  a Milton, Kent  ga Ann Wakelin née Clark (wanda ya rasu a 1787), mai rawa kuma manajan ƙungiyar mawaka. Kasuwancin Ann, "Mrs. Wakelin's Company", ya yi wasa a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Sadler's Wells ; mahaifin Baker, James Wakelin (1716–1779), ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na ƙananan sassa a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Royal Haymarket wanda daga baya ya buɗe shagon littattafai a Shoe Lane inda ya sayar da littattafai da littattafai na addini.  Tare da 'yar uwarta Mary, Baker ta yi rawa a matsayin mai rawa a kamfanin mahaifiyarta a Sadler's Wells sannan ta tafi yawon shakatawa zuwa Norwich, Great Yarmouth da Bristol . Baker ta kuma yi wasa a matsayin mai yin wasan ƙwallo, kuma ana ci tarar kamfanin mahaifiyarta akai-akai a bikin baje kolin Stourbridge da ke Cambridge  tsakanin 1762 da 1777 saboda bayar da wasanni waɗanda suka haɗa da rawa da igiya da wasan kwaikwayo na slack wire, nunin 'yar tsana da kuma wasan kwaikwayo na pantomime .  

## Aure
Ta auri Thomas Baker (1735–1769) a ranar 6 ga Janairu 1760 a Finsbury, London. Ya kasance ɗan wasan acrobat a ƙungiyar Wakelin wanda wataƙila shine sanannen ɗan wasan barkwanci na Poland;  ya mutu a shekara ta 1769 ya bar Baker da ƙananan yara uku don renon su: Anne Baker (1761–1817);  Henry Baker (1765–), da Sally "Sarah" Baker (1769–1817). Don tallafa wa iyalinta, daga 1772 zuwa 1777, Baker ta jagoranci kamfanin mahaifiyarta na Sadler's Wells wanda ke nuna "rawan igiya, tsalle-tsalle, waƙoƙin kiɗa, burlettas, da duk tufafi, kayan alatu da injina 'sabo gaba ɗaya'".   Kamar yadda ta kasance cikin sha'awar yin duk rayuwarta, Baker ya nutsar da kanta cikin sabon rawar da ta taka, yana yin yawancin ayyuka da kanta:

Kamfanin Baker ya yi rangadin ko'ina a Kent, ciki har da: Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Faversham da Tunbridge Wells ban da ziyarar lokaci-lokaci zuwa Folkestone, Deal, Sandwich, Lewes da Sittingbourne . Kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo nata ya haɗa da 'yan uwa daban-daban kamar mahaifiyarta, Mrs. Ann Wakelin; 'yar uwarta Mary, 'ya'yanta uku da 'yan uwanta, Irelands, waɗanda daga cikinsu mawaka ne a kamfanin. Don canza lissafin, Baker ya kuma ɗauki hayar masu nishadantarwa masu nasara da shahara, ciki har da ɗan barkwanci Lewy Owen. Wani shirin wasan kwaikwayo daga shekarun 1770 don Bartholomew Fair ya bayyana cewa Mrs. Baker's Company za ta bayyana a Greyhound Yard Theatre inda za su yi wasan kwaikwayo na Charles Dibdin na 1774 mai suna *The Waterman*, tare da Lewy Owen a matsayin Robin da Miss Wakelin a matsayin Wilhelmina. Wasan kwaikwayo na baya shine *Harlequin's Whim, ko kuma, The Merry Medly* wanda Miss Sarah Baker ta fito a matsayin Columbine .   Da dawowar Mrs. Baker a shekarar 1780, kamfanin Mrs. Baker ya gabatar da *The Quaker* sannan kuma mai zane *Harlequin Wanderer; ko kuma, Great Turk Outwitched* da Miss Wakelin a matsayin Columbine, Lewy Owen a matsayin Clown da Miss Sarah Baker a matsayin mai hidima.

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