Macbeth by Welles

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Orson Welles, just twenty-one years old at the time, began his theatrical career directing Shakespeare's Macbeth and Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus for the Federal Theatre Project.
Welles' designs for the plays were characterized by the creative risk-taking that exemplified his dramatic work. His use of racially integrated casting and "alternative" settings for these masterpieces was an innovation.
For the former play, Welles cast African-American performers in all the roles, moved the play's setting from Scotland to the Caribbean, and changed the witches to Haitian witch doctors.




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