How is the play structured?
The play consists of five acts
The play is divided into three broad sections
The play is one continuous scene
At the outset, the MC says that the story that is about to unfold has what?
a beginning, a middle but, as yet, no end
a beginning, a middle and a very clear ending
no beginning, no middle and no end
How is the strength of character of the Highlander women revealed?
Through scripted dialogues in which female characters laugh about what is happening to them
Through various readings from factual accounts outlining the people's resistance to the Clearances
Through extended monologues delivered by the female characters
The section at the end of the play with the Crofter and his wife allows the playwright to do what?
Flash back in time, to show us what the past was like for Highland communities
Remain in the present to show the benefits of oil discoveries in the North Sea
Flash forward in time, and offer a glimpse of what the future might hold in store for the Highlands
The setting switches from Scotland to Canada. What is the point in this setting change?
To document how the ruling classes employed the newly displaced Highlands as a working and military force in British colonies abroad
To document how those who emigrated from the Highlands set up their own succcessful business in Canada
To document how the ruling classes bought up more land abroad for sheep farming
What does the trial of Patrick Sellar demonstrate?
How rigorous legal procedures were at the time
How articulate Patrick Sellar was, and to prove that he actually was an upstanding member of the community
How the law tended to be on side of the landowner rather than on the side of the tenant
The song 'High Industry' is a duet sung by which characters?
The Crofter and his wife
Andy McChuckemup and Lord Vat
Patrick Sellar and James Loch
In this section of the play concerned with the discovery of oil, what is the object of the playwright's satire?
The landed gentry
The Government
The Church
The Ballad 'The Battle of the Braes', with the refrain 'oh the battle was long but the people were strong/you should have been there that day', is about what?
The Battle of Bannockburn
The people of Glendale's resistance to planned evictions
The settlement of Highland people in the Red River Valley
In section two, the 3rd Duke of Sutherland asks the question: do you want the Mongol hordes to come sweeping across Europe, burning your houses, driving you into the sea? Why is this ironic
do you want the Mongol hordes to come sweeping across Europe, burning your houses, driving you into the sea?
This is exactly the kind of violence that landowners had been enacting on Highland Crofters for many years
This is what the Duke wants
No-one was interested in coming to Britain at that time