The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil: 60 Years of Modern Plays

It's a story that has a beginning, a middle, but as yet, no end.

John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post—Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the 19th century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning their houses in order to make way for the Cheviot sheep.

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