I may be biased because I'm a cinema major, but none of the plays really feel like they're made for stage. Like, what do you mean characters wait on stage for "a few minutes" for the sound of a train? Huh??? Just... dead air until someone presses the button to make a train sound? No way. Someone go back in time and get Mrs. Douglas Camp Johnson a camera so she can make short films.

That all being said... The plays aren't very good. In my opinion! The plots of most if not all of them feel like there's something missing, as if she wrote all the peak moments in a story and these plays are the bits of aftermath, like a One Day Later recap. Another dig is the plays feel like something my high school English teacher would've wrote because she wrote the plays herself I'm assuming because they didn't allow our small 500-student school to do regular high school plays like Romeo & Juliet or whatever.

No play really stood out to me except the accidental incest one, because girl what the fuck? The one that's supposed to be like Romeo & Juliet except it was way too short and I didn't see any of it coming so it made me laugh because it felt absurd, and the one I think called Black Boy Blue Eyes? Where the boy about to be lynched gets saved by the judge who's implied to be his dad? All the ones with prominent mixed race characters. Wow.

I'm still very interested in reading her poetry.