Diagnosed is a piece that highlights sisterhood, family, African tradition, forgiveness, healing, and more. The play has a cast of four to seven female-identifying women. You cannot talk about African traditions without mentioning the drum, the heartbeat, and the soul of most African communities. The drum is the centerpiece, and the eighth character of the work, which is a live drummer adding to the female-identifying cast. The drumming in the play symbolizes a call of the ancestors, battle, rituals, war, celebration, death, and healing as in African communities and ancestry.