Manuel García-Cartagena’s Siete días antes del tsunami and Frank Disla's Un romance andaluz are plays written by Dominican authors that portray disaster and catastrophe in doomsday scenarios. This essay analyzes through these plays the ways that violent colonial relationships impose inequality and abuse in day-to-day interactions, how trauma and memories operate in warn-torn places and bodies and how subaltern people navigate between participating and rejecting the violence that the world powers generate in their relationship with developing countries. By uncovering and revealing the systemic and structural roots of catastrophe, El Tsunami and Un romance andaluz offer narratives of resistance against socially created tragedies through common aesthetic elements such as meta theatricality, religious symbolism and political concepts proper to the Dominican Republic’s reality, breaking of the fourth wall. Community building and imagination are the tools suggested to create these counter catastrophic narratives.