Passing Through from Exotic Places
by Ronald Ribman

THE STORIES: The first play, <a href=“https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=534 The Son Who Hunted Tigers in Jakarta , begins arrestingly as a suburban couple discover an intruder in their living room at 3 A.M.

The well-dressed prowler claims that he stumbled in by mistake on his way home from a party; the husband is inclined to believe his story; the wife does not.

From then on, the tension and excitement develop inexorably.

(2 men, 1 woman.) In the second play, Sunstroke , a pudgy, eager Peace Corpsman arrives to take over the duties at a Pacific island, replacing an eccentric couple who have apparently turned the outpost into an antebellum Southern plantation.

Humor and fantasy mingle as the well-educated, young native he first encounters turns himself into a grinning, shuffling ”darkie” at the others' arrival.

(3 men, 1 woman.) The third play, The Burial of Esposito , is a touching and powerful study of a father who has lost a son in Vietnam and whose grief and guilt are so great that he convinces himself that the boy is still alive—and arises from his coffin to forgive him.

(3 men, 1 woman.)