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TIL in 1936, 20 year old Orson Welles directed an entirely African American cast of Macbeth set in the Caribbean in which Haitian vodou replaced Scottish witchcraft. The play was produced by the Federal Theatre Project which was responsible for creating jobs in the arts during the Depression.

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