Word: seeress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showiest role, Roscoe Lee Browne plays the neighborhood wise man. He - has reached age 65 by staying out of other people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded and admirable. It is such affectionate ambivalence toward all the characters that makes Wilson's play a vivid and uplifting tone poem and never a mere polemic. W.A.H.III