(ENTERTAINMENT THEATER) The Federal Theatre Presents the Ne

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PROGRAM FOR "VOODOO MACBETH" (ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) The Federal Theatre Presents the Negro Unit in Macbeth. 4 pages, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, on one folding sheet; moderate wear including a vertical fold and adhesion obscuring some text on the final page. [New York, 1936]

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This federally-funded production of Macbeth was directed by 20-year-old white whiz kid, Orson Welles, sponsored by a Negro Unit which was headed by white actor John Houseman. The cast, however, was entirely African-American; Canada Lee as Banquo is the best known of the actors today, but many of the roles were filled by nonprofessionals. Welles transplanted Shakespeare's Macbeth from Scotland to a Caribbean island, with voodoo taking the place of witchcraft.