NTID Theatre History: My Heart's in the Highlands: February 1972

This NTID Drama Club performance was held at the RIT Booth Auditorium Theatre on February 17-18, 1972, at 8:15 p.m.

William Saroyan's play "My Heart is in the Highlands" was adapted into a sign language performance with special permission from Samuel French, Inc. It is a comedy about a young boy and his Armenian family.

Director: Richard Howell
Assistant Director: Patty Vogel
Special Assistant: Connie Head

The following characters/actors are: Johnny (Tom Orscher) Jasper MacGregor (Sonny Hottle) Johnny's father (Charles Baird) Mr. Kosak (Donald Stoops) Philip Carmichael (Charles Bradley) Johnny's grandmother (Shelia Rayburn) Rufe Apley (Jesse Pearson) Friends and Neighbors (Dottie Knights, Sandra Urmetz, John Croke, John Swan, Peter Schragle, Ralph Gallo, Ron Gelden, Richard Merlino, Allen Rothstein).

The NTID play "My Heart's in the Highlands" by William Saroyan is a comedy about a boy and his Armenian family. The following actors (in order of appearance) in the play were:

Tom Orscher

Chuck Baird

Sonny Hottle

Donald Stoops

Sheila Rayburn

Jesse Pearson

Charles Bradley

This play focuses on the life of a struggling poet and his young son, where the father's love for poetry and his dreams of a better life are juxtaposed against the harsh realities of poverty and the looming threat of World War I, a mysterious old man, an actor and trumpeter, also appears in their lives, bringing a sense of wonder and a touch of the fantastical to their everyday struggles,