Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre PlayscriptsRichard France This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.P.A Federal Theatre Project and Mercury Theatre adaptations, including the "Voodoo" Macbeth, the modern-dress Julius Caesar and Welles' compilation of history plays, Five Kings. |
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... thought that Welles had not used his cast advanta- geously : " Divorced from Scotland and its thanes , with its language simplified or restated in vivid racial idioms ... [ the ' Voodoo ' Macbeth ] should be a tale of Black Majesty ...
... thought that Welles had not used his cast advanta- geously : " Divorced from Scotland and its thanes , with its language simplified or restated in vivid racial idioms ... [ the ' Voodoo ' Macbeth ] should be a tale of Black Majesty ...
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... thought Welles would direct a pair of plays for production in their regular subscription list . Somehow nothing materialized until Five Kings was put into rehearsal , too late to go on the road as anything but a subscriber's " dividend ...
... thought Welles would direct a pair of plays for production in their regular subscription list . Somehow nothing materialized until Five Kings was put into rehearsal , too late to go on the road as anything but a subscriber's " dividend ...
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... thought Five Kings " the most impressive and ambitious undertaking of the Mercury's short and exciting career . " While acknowledging that Welles had " an arduous task before him to bring it within reasonable compass , " Hughes declared ...
... thought Five Kings " the most impressive and ambitious undertaking of the Mercury's short and exciting career . " While acknowledging that Welles had " an arduous task before him to bring it within reasonable compass , " Hughes declared ...
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