The Trouble With Paradise
Employees in a coffee shop are overjoyed when they win their union majority. However, their plans are thwarted as a historic wildfire sweeps up the California coast and threatens to burn down everything they care about most. Set in idyllic Santa Barbara, the play takes a tender, charismatic look at the complex stratification of the service work and interrogates the myth of the service industry “family”. Two hours.
2 (f), 3 (m), 1 (nb)