Orson Welles’ Macbeth (1936)
I applied this week to direct a staged reading — that’s theater we’re talking about — so hopefully something will come of that. Before golden boy Orson Welles made Citizen Kane at the ripe age of 26 he was doing theater here in New York. His infamous broadcast of The War of the Worlds was in 1938 at twenty-three, but even before that, two years prior, when he was just twenty-one, Welles staged an all-black production of Macbeth set in Haiti with voodoo witch doctors. It later went on a national tour and served as the concept for Welles’ 1948 film of the same play. Here are some newsreel clips from the production:
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