"Welles’s concept—which he credited to his wife, Virginia Nicolson—was to move Macbeth from medieval Scotland to nineteenth-century Haiti and the court of Henri Christophe (1767?–1820), the former slave who proclaimed himself “King Henry I.” Key to the transposition, as Welles put it at the time, was that “the witch element in the play falls beautifully into the supernatural atmosphere of Haitian voodoo.”"
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This is fascinating 
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Another one of those "how come I didn't know this" posts. I know about various WPA projects, but missed knowing about the theater and performing arts projects. We are becoming accustomed to color-blind casting in theater, but I am expect that was not the case in the 30's. I can imagine a voodoo connection to MacBeth I just started watching it on Apple TV; the witches are very eerie; Denzel Washington is MacBeth.
Thanks, Wendy Stephens for enlightening us.
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