Cloud Tectonics at Brookfield Theatre

Cloud Tectonics
by José Rivera
directed by Jared Reynolds
produced by Andrew Okell & Pippa Walton with Andres Idrovo

AUDITIONS February 8 & 9, 2026
Preview April 16, 2026
Shows April 17 thru May 9, 2026

During a record-breaking Los Angeles deluge, a man gives shelter to a beautiful, pregnant hitch-hiker who is searching for the father of her child.

“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