Voodoo Macbeth (2021) on Netflix
In 1936 Harlem, John Houseman and Rose McClendon of the Negro Theatre Unit give their first all-Black Macbeth to a twenty-year-old Orson Welles. He wants a Haitian setting instead.
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Plot summary
The Negro Theatre Unit in New York plans the first staging of Macbeth with an all-Black cast. John Houseman leads the unit, and Rose McClendon serves as co-director. Both take a chance on Orson Welles, who is twenty years old, untested as a director of a stage production, and battling addiction, and who had worked as an actor and writer for radio. Welles argues that the Scottish play should be remade as a Haitian production, a version the company has not attempted. Rehearsals aim at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem, where the unit prepares to bring its all-Black Macbeth before an audience for the first time.
Cast
- Wrekless Watsonas Cuba Johnson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Voodoo Macbeth (2021)
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- Voodoo Macbeth dramatizes Orson Welles' 1936 Harlem staging of Macbeth, for which Welles moved Shakespeare's play to a 19th-century land resembling post-colonial Haiti and replaced the witches and sorcery with voodoo, the touch that gave the production its name.
