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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

  • June 1974
  • 1hr

    30mins

  • Drama
  • Documentary
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • History
  • TV Movie
  • Directed by

    John Mackenzie,

    Starring

    John Bett,

    Dolina MacLennan,

    David Maclennan,

    Elizabeth MacLennan

    ...

    In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.