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“Aleshea Harris has written an extraordinary play-in-progress that explores vital questions about the legacies of violence that formed the United States and continue to ghost its contemporary epoch,” it read:
As the artistic and production team moved through the creative process, the material provoked extensive and necessary internal conversations. Students in the cast expressed a desire not to move forward with the project and we have decided to cancel the scheduled performances.

The play description warned potential patrons that it deals with “abjection and settler violence” and includes “gun violence, self-harm, nooses and hanging, animal cruelty, silhouetted nudity/sex acts and infant death.” It centers around a “ghost town” paying for the sins it tried to hide.

It sounds utterly wretched. One way of looking at this is that people should not have to present a play that's absolute garbage just because the playwright is black.