The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974In 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.
Acted in
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
Iain Glas
as MacLeod
David Steaurt
as Judge
Kenneth Benda
as Duke
Stuart Mungall
as Husband
Terry Cavers
as Wife
Kevin Collins
as Old Man