The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
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1hr
30mins
Directed by
John Mackenzie,
Starring
John Bett,
Dolina MacLennan,
David Maclennan,
Elizabeth MacLennan
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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.