By John Farrell
Los Angeles is a land of fantasies come true, but there has never been a fantasy quite as big as the tale spun in Cloud Tectonics, currently at the Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre through July 7.
Rain is only an occasional visitor in La-La land, but Cloud Tectonics begins in the rain, a huge, hurricane-style rain. We meet the very-pregnant Celestina del Sol (Leah Steiner) sitting at a bus stop on the corner of Santa Monica and Virgil, looking for help. She is found, wet and bedraggled, by Anibal de la Luna (Daniel Penilla), who doesn’t notice the odd juxtaposition of his and her name, and takes her home to his bungalow in Hollywood.