cover photo by Ken Howard
“...CLOUD TECTONICS, José
Rivera's often enchanting new play... Rivera has successfully
mixed two styles in which he previously dabbled, realism and
magic realism, to produce a naturalistic play interlaced with
symbols and magical occurrences. In doing so, he has found a
voice to probe the mystery of the kind of love that stops your
heart as surely as it does your sense of time and space. And he
does it without goo.”
Laurie Winer, Los Angeles
Times
“The operative phrase for
José Rivera's work is `magic realism', which doesn't mean much
until you've been put under the spell of his brief and lovely
play, CLOUD TECTONICS.
It's a love story, an old
boy-meets-girl story, but...it's also a story of theatrical
enchantment, in which the ordinary is suddenly transformed into
the miraculous.
On a fantastically rainy night
in Los Angeles, the city of Angels, a plain Joe named Anibal de
la Luna picks up and brings home with him a poor, bedraggled
woman hitchhiker who calls herself Celestina del Sol. She is
fifty-four years old, she says, and she has been pregnant two
years.
She is indeed a rare and
heavenly creature, a mystic wanderer with no sense of time and an
infinite capacity to love.
Alone in his little house, sealed off from the wails of the
decaying city outside, De la Luna and Del Sol come together, joining their
bodies and their dreams.”
Richard Christiansen, Chicago
Tribune
originally produced at The Actors Theater of Louisville
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