The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil 1974

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Drama Documentary Music Comedy History TV Movie

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.

Homepage https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0193404
Release Date 1974-06-06
Runtime 1h 30m
Directors John Mackenzie, Brian Tufano
Producer Graeme MacDonald
Writer John McGrath