The Theatre of Orson Welles

Orson Wells Theater "Once you stop the movie, stay in the theater, enter the politics, write something, you will be more successful" (Kramer). Orson Wells cited this in an interview in 1982 and asked questions about the career of one of the most famous film directors of the 20th century. He hopes that his life will be separated from the movie how the director of the movie "Citizen Kane" is admired as the best movie of the last century. How can he hope to keep on drama when most comments he has experienced with this media are forgotten.

Nonetheless, in addition to the Federal Theater, there are many theater companies that attempt artistically challenging and socially relevant dramas such as Orson Wells' Theater League and Mercury Theater. There is no company succeeding this team called the group theater. Actors founded by directors of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford in 1931 included Stella Adler, John Garfield, Franchout Tone, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Elia Kazan, group theaters survived the Great Depression . As a noncommercial repertoire, New York City does not have a star dedicated to the current drama sense or major Donnas, and highlights the psychological reality performance style called the way, Kurman and Strasbury Utilizing the ideas developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky among his predecessors - Bolshevik Moscow Art Theater

Ten years ago to announce the film script, Orson Wells performed Macbeth as a black drama department of the Federal Theater project at Harlem Lafayette Theater, and acted with a black actor in Haiti. The ceremony established the witch's scene. This work, called The Voodoo Macbeth, was inflamed after Harlem's riot, was accused of killing black culture and was known as "funny black movement" until Mr. Wells convinced the crowd to use the black actor. Voodoo presents an important cultural statement

Even classic dramas received new treatment in the production of the Federal Theater project. One of the most popular works is Orson's Shakespeare's Macbeth, directed by Orson Wells. This black product known as Voodoo Macbeth, as a witch of three, includes a voodoo shrine maiden, not in Scotland but in Haiti. That is truly strange. The Federal Theater Project was criticized most severely by the US Congress as impairing American traditional values. FTP was particularly criticized as House Non-American Activities Committee began a hearing on Federal One. Flanagan's testimony prevented FTP from surviving in the attack, but the Federal Theater project disbanded in 1939.