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The Politics of John McGrath’s Play: Focusing on 7:84 Scotland and The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

  • Journal of Modern English Drama
  • Abbr : JMBARD
  • 2017, 30(1), pp.145-168
  • Publisher : 한국현대영미드라마학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Literature > Contemporary English Drama

Hwang Su-Hyun 1

1성균관대학교

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McGrath worked as a political dramatist, director and the head of the 7:84 Scotland. He toured throughout Scotland for working-class audiences. He initially worked on TV programs and film productions, then founded the 7:84 Scotland which performed socialist theatre. Furthermore, he wrote The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil which is a painful history of Scotland’s oppressed ancestry. McGrath’s play is an unprecedented work in British history. McGrath performed a new form of political theatre with the interaction between the text and the elements of the performance. McGrath discovered the subversive power of working-class’s culture in his audience. His audience was able to recognize the history of Scotland that was once forgotten. McGrath grafts entertainment elements of the working class onto Scotland’s tragic history, thereby creating a new form of political theatre. McGrath’s work can be regarded as British oppositional and alternative theatre. Through The Cheviot, a new type of audience can be created. Theatre thus became a much more effective way to deliver social democratic messages than mass media such as television or film.

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