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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil - 60 Years of Modern Plays (Hardcover)
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil - 60 Years of Modern Plays (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Plays
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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. Described by the playwright as having a
"ceilidh" format, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
draws on historical research alongside Gaelic song and the Scots'
love of variety and popular entertainment to tell this epic story.
A totally distinctive cultural and theatrical phenomenon, the play
championed several new approaches to theatre, raising its profile
as a means of political intervention; proposing a collective and
collaborative approach to creating theatre; offering a language of
performance accessible to working-class people; producing theatre
in non-purpose-built theatre spaces; breaking down the barrier
between audience and performers through interaction; and taking
theatre to people who otherwise would not access it. The play
received its premiere in 1973 by the agit-prop theatre group 7:84.
Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Plays series began in 1959 with the
publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and has grown
over six decades to now include more than 1000 plays by some of the
best writers from around the world. This new special edition
hardback of The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil was
published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays in
2019, chosen by a public vote and features a new foreword by Kate
McGrath.
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