The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil

...The history and the tragedy of Scotland, from the Clearances of the 1800s to the oil rigs of the 1970s, presented as a Highland ceilidh, with song, humour and drama intermixed; a unique piece of theatre.

It was in 1973 that The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil broke onto the Scottish theatre scene to become a cornerstone of contemporary Scottish drama.

The play launched the Scottish branch of the highly successful 7:84 theatre company. The initial idea came from a meeting of 450 people from all over Scotland—politicians, writers, community workers, ordinary people—who asked John McGrath to write and perform a new play for Scotland, about Scotland; to say what they, the people of Scotland, wanted said now. The result was a remarkable production that initially played to 30,000 people all over Scotland, from tiny village halls to large city theatres.

Pantheon staged a production of The Cheviot at the beginning of March 2001, at the Gilmorehill G12 in Glasgow.