Tag: Voodoo Macbeth

  • 1936 Harlem’s ‘Voodoo Macbeth’

    1936 Harlem’s ‘Voodoo Macbeth’

    Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convince a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare’s Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Reimagined in a Haitian setting, this revolutionary 1936 production, which came to be known as “Voodoo Macbeth,” was fraught with cast/director clashes – particularly…