Play for Today: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)
Music/Documentary/Television/Classic/Drama/Comedy · 1h 30m · 6/6/1974
Description
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.
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Cast
John Bett
VariousDolina MacLennan
VariousDavid MacLennan
VariousElizabeth MacLennan
VariousAlex Norton
VariousBill Paterson
VariousAllan Ross
VariousJohn McGrath
VariousCharles Kearney
SellarJames Cosmo
LochIain Glas
MacLeodDavid Steaurt
JudgeKenneth Benda
DukeStuart Mungall
HusbandTerry Cavers
WifeKevin Collins
Old ManCrew
John McGrath
DirectorJohn Mackenzie
DirectorGraeme MacDonald
DirectorJohn Byrne
DirectorBrian Tufano
DirectorMike Turner
DirectorAlan Dykes
DirectorGordon Clarke
DirectorAnn Scott
DirectorBarry Newbery
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