[7][1] Lloyd wrote that she had "charmed and impressed" in three contrasting performances in The Innocent Mistress, The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz, and The Children's Hour.
[21] In 1993 and again in 1995, Barker played Rose Hunter in Nice Girls, a documentary drama created by the New Victoria Theatre about four miners' wives protesting against pit closures by occupying a shaft at Trentham Colliery.
[26] A reviewer in The Stage wrote "The New Victoria Theatre revival of Nice Girls has inexplicably transformed it into a masterpiece of documentary drama ... [with] superlatively natural performances from a cast whose varied characters dovetail into a marvellous dramatic unit.
But Charlotte Barker makes Alison a very real character as she sorts through the family mementoes which recall her generally unexciting life.
"[30] Writing in the Daily Telegraph, critic Charles Spencer described the play as "a theatrical hell of sentimentality and squirming embarrassment", but continued, "Charlotte Barker is in no way to blame for this.
Other parts came in The Widowmaker (1990); Carla Lane's Screaming (1992; 6 episodes)[31][32] the crime series Maigret (1992); The Bill (1996);[33] Birds of a Feather (1998); and Hearts and Bones (2001).