One of the aims of this book is to foster a pan-Caribbean view of theater and to identify shared tropes and theatrical strategies, which we call “currents,” that illustrate how theatrical performance contributes to our understanding of the coloniality of catastrophe. In the theater, iteration is agency and renewal, a rehearsal for “getting it right” whether that be perfecting a stage performance or imagining or modeling alternatives to the real world. By employing a specific focus on the alternative possibilities inherent in performance, our rasanblaj, or gathering of essays calls attention to the ways in which performance reveals the deliberately constructed roots of catastrophe and offers strategies to live and imagine otherwise. The cultural work of theater explored in this volume thus offers a potentially countercatastrophic response that unsettles the normalization of catastrophe.