Orson Welles’ « Voodoo Macbeth » - YouTube
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Orson Welles’ “Voodoo” Macbeth, which transposed the medieval violence and witchcraft of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play” into 19th century Haiti … it opened at Harlem’s Lafayette Theatre on April 14, 1936, some 10,000 people surrounded the venue, blocking traffic on Seventh Avenue; when the show toured the country after a three-month run in Harlem, the playbill boasted that the original engagement played to 150,000 people.
Directed by a 20-year-old Orson Welles… [his] audacious staging of Macbeth replaced the three witches with a troupe of Voodoo drummers and dancers.
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