Catastrophe, Theater, Performance: Praxes of Re/Making the Caribbean With/Out Coloniality, A Conversation with Eliézer Guérismé, Judith G. Miller, Gaël Octavia, and Gina Athena Ulysse

This English-French bilingual conversation brings together theater and performance makers from the Creolophone and Francophone Caribbean, Europe, and North America to examine experiences of coloniality and catastrophe in Caribbean spaces. We learn that neither coloniality nor catastrophe happens without a perpetual connection to the other, regardless of being natural, human- or system-made, or most often, all of the above. The participants, Eliézer Guérismé, Judith G. Miller, Gaël Octavia, and Gina Athena Ulysse, pull from their varied roles as playwright, performer, visual artist, translator, director (staged performance, artistic, or theater festival), and scholar to help us to understand the creative potential of re-making—of responding to but not being bound by colonial-catastrophe—through Caribbean theater and performance.