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McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002

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DVD of a BBC `Play for Today` production of `The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil` by John McGrath.

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Identifier: Acc.13245
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John McGrath`s play, `The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil`, was toured round the Highlands of Scotland by 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company in 1973. The following year, a television version of the play was broadcast as part of the BBC`s `Play for Today` season. Adapted by John McGrath, this showed excerpts from the play as performed by the Company at Dornie village hall, intercut with dramatised scenes from Highland history and interviews with Scots of the time.

Dates: 1974.

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