The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)
Drama · Music · Comedy · History · TV Movie · Documentary
Overview
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.
Cast
- John Bett as Various
- Dolina MacLennan as Various
- David Maclennan as Various
- Elizabeth MacLennan as Various
- Alex Norton as Various
- Bill Paterson as Various
- Allan Ross as Various
- John McGrath as Various
- Charles Kearney as Sellar
- James Cosmo as Loch