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How did Orson Welles change the setting of Macbeth for the Federal Theatre Project?
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For his 1936 production of Macbeth with the Federal Theatre Project, Orson Welles changed the setting of the play from Scotland to Haiti.1
This production, which featured an all-Black cast, also reimagined the Weird Sisters as voodoo priestesses.12