An exuberant and sweeping ‘Ceilidh Play with Scenes, Songs and Music of Highland History’ which tells the continuing story of the exploitation of the Scottish Highlands.
McGrath’s winding, furious, innovative play begins Starting with the story of the Clearances, this passionate, innovative play winds through a thread of capitalist and repressive exploitation through the estates of the stag-hunting landed gentry, to the most recent rush for profit in the name of North Sea Oil.
A passionate history told through ballads, Gaelic songs, poetry, comic sketches and tragic stories of resistance.