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Lynn King

"I been a drifter all my life," Lynn King said as the Unicorn's Bee-Luther-Hatchee opened last May -- and audiences were instantly hooked by her mammoth stage presence. King played a woman at two stages in her life: a senior citizen rich with stories about what it means to be a black female in America; and her younger self, a bold, subtly sexual being too focused on matters of the heart to care what people thought about her white lover. Her work was wonderfully modulated and sharply etched. It was the first of two strong performances from King this year -- the other in Nothing Comes to Sleepers -- solidifying the notion that she can do just about anything put before her. Of late, there's nothing false or actressy about her work; she's living in her characters' skins, and audiences are reaping the benefits.

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