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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, would change the world forever.

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