The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| EEric BurroughsHecate | Hecate |
| Doctor | |
| AAlma DicksonThe Duchess | The Duchess |
| MMaurice EllisMacbeth | Macbeth |