

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.
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil was directed by John Mackenzie.
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil runs for 1h 30min, and was released in 1974.
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