Orson Welles talks about Voodoo Macbeth

Orson Welles on Voodoo Macbeth

[@davidgerald133]

This is why I sort of HATE theater.....because when something magical happens its rarely caught on tape. Ive only seen small clips of the show....would love to have seen the whole thing

[@robertpembroke8902]

The Hamlet Joke In Hamlet the Grave Diggers say, 'Ah, poor Yorick I knew him well'. How do the grave diggers know to go the cemetery plot? They're quite drunk though happy to be there vis a vis Mary Differ in merry but with differences of opinion. They're goal is to steal the corpse. Initially, they prime the nature of a synaesthetic sensation akin to voodoo by practicing a priming method involving pain through accident. They then test for presence periodically by pricking themselves with pins to see if a transmission of communication is possible just prior to death. They plan on stealing the corpse to test for communicative action via the corpse to other people within the Hamlet or Township. So the voodoo is achieved by priming with pain and threats. Then they try to achieve accidents in the weakened human subject to create injury leading to death. That's the bases of the Grave Digger scene where they grab the skull and say, "Ah, poor Yorick I knew him well". n.b., They're Indigenous. They live proximal to me. I know this because I heard them speak nearby just after priming with a pin prick. I've actually observed it in person not infrequently. You know when they start to prick themselves. That's a version of "Ah, poor Yorick I knew him well". Sometimes you can make a visual of them doing it. It does look a bit like a scene from Abott and Costello in the haunted house voodoo comedy; Hence, the Surname Joke. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6jQiHWhnpVpr8Usi=PcBv3Usm9EF5uMJ1 and if you let everyone know then it should end up like thus- kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmSZdYtun7SJfqssi=JwCzxB2my4hwSGc9

[@ImChrisAnderson]

Thanks for this. Am obsessed with this production. Though I didn't like the casting of Orson for the recent film.

[@davidgerald133]

Yeah that was horrible

[@davidgerald133]

At least get someone that can do the Orson voice