Re: RAT Amazing stories and histories

[Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com>]

And then, even more oddly, the US government supported
ZULU MACBETH, a production from South Africa produced
at various theaters around the US and then ultimately
at Lincoln Center.
And this was in the 1980's.


--- Ahoodwink@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 12/18/99 11:29:38 AM,
> NOMADMONAD@aol.com writes:
> 
> << Quite extraordinary to realize that our
> government actually directly 
> funded a 
> project such as  "Voodoo Macbeth".  An all-black
> version set in 19th century 
> Haiti, produced at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem
> with cast that was 95 
> percent amateur and directed by a 20 year old kid
> named Orson Welles.
>  >>
> 
> Nick,
> 
> And, not to state the obvious, but it rocked.  My
> father saw it and to the 
> end of his life, remembered it clearly.  Ditto the
> Mercury "Julius Caesar" - 
> he still got chills from the death of Cinna the
> Poet.
> 
> Guess what?  The arts are relevant.
> 
> Amy
> 

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