"Improvisation around the story "My Heart is in the Highlands" by Saroyan" "It's morning in the city." " Hi, Scarecrow." " Hi, Rosa." "That guy didn't take you to America?" "Why would I go there?" "Besides, he was fat." " You look perfect, Rosa." " I take it as a compliment." "VISIT OF A GREAT ACTOR" "Keep playing." "Could you get some water for an old man whose heart is in the highlands?" " What highlands?" " Beautiful far away highlands." "Get some water please." "Sir, what's your heart doing in the highlands?" "It's grieving there." "Get some water please." "Where are your parents?" "Your mother?" "Far away, but her heart isn't." " Where is it?" " In the highlands." "I'm so thirsty." "Where's your mother's mother?" "Is her poor withered heart in the highlands too?" "Right smack in the highlands." "Son, i'm dying of thirst." "Get the old man some water." "Don't stand there like a dummy." "Where are your manners?" "You get him a drink." "You're doing nothing." "You know that I am composing a new poem." "Get him a bucket of water, before he falls down and dies." "Why not let the boy question a traveler?" "Hello." "Your son's been telling me how good the climate is here." "Let me introduce myself." "Jasper MacGregor, actor." "Good afternoon." "Won't you come in for a rest and a humble meal." "Don't refuse, Sir." "Sir, Mam, I'm starving." "I'll come right in." " Scarecrow, run to the grocer's." " I need money." " Ask him for a credit." " He's tired of it." "Argue it out with him." "That's your job." "That's the last time I do it." "He wants to know what's your work." "Tell him your father is one of the greatest unknown poets living." "MR. KOSAK'S GROCERY STORE." "Mr. Kosak, what if you were in China with no friends and no money?" "Where is the money?" "Forget about money." "I'm talking about China." "How would you feel in China?" "You ain't in China, neither is your Pa." "I ain't gonna give you more credits." "I'm talking about heathens around you, and you hungry and dying." "Some bread and cheese could save you." "Would you hesitate to ask for it?" " I would." " That's defeatist talk, Sir." "Hi, Scarecrow." "You invited the bugler for breakfast?" "He's a famous actor called MacGregor." "I bet he knows many songs." "How is your beautiful daughter, Mr. Kosak?" "She refuses to work in the store." "How's your Grandma?" "She keeps singing." "She wants to be an opera singer." "She says they live better than kings." "Bread, cheese and wine for the great actor." "Good job, Scarecrow!" "I'll give you yesterday's bread, a pound of cheese, that's it." "What's your Pa's job?" "He writes poetry." "That's all he does." "He's one of the greatest unknown poets in the world." "When does he get money?" "Never." "You can't take money for being great." "BREAKFAST" "While touring around Turkey, I met the King Faisal." "He was a Turk." "He showed me a saint." "She was dressed like a Turkish girl." "In the year 75 I climbed the Atlas Mountain in Morocco." "I was dressed like a Moroccan girl." "I rode 2000 kilometers on a camel's back," "dressed like an Egyptian girl." "I sang in the opera in China." "When crossing a river, I was captured by an indigenous tribe." "Then I dressed up as a Chinese." "Don't you think I dressed up too often?" "I sang Lucia de Lammermoor." "I bet Snow White will disguise herself again." "Stop talking, boy." "MacGregor, she's a liar." "Are you playing?" "When you're my age, you'll know songs aren't important." "Bread's the thing." "And then i was offered an engagement." "I had to sign the contract." "She's one of the greatest women of our time." "Don't believe her, MacGregor, she's lying." "Don't listen to these fools, Sir." "I did sing." "Madam, Madam." "I'll play a song that will make your heart leap with joy and grief." "Mr. MacGregor plays a song that makes hearts leap with joy and grief." "subtitled by Watch your arm Simon"