The Dramas
Drama. Stories of the staff and volunteers of a free clinic in Northwest Washington, D.C., during the violent weekend of anti war protests following the Kent State Massacre.
2 Acts
Large Cast [20, flexible]
2 Hours
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Drama. Two families, separated by one hundred years, suffer the tragedies of child abuse and neglect in this strange twist on ghost stories and psychic connections.
2 Acts
Average Size Cast [10]
2 Hours
Drama. The semi-sweet love story between two students in an all girl private school during the 1950's.
2 Acts
Large Cast [17 flexible]
2 Hours
Drama. Convicted of raping a 12 year old girl on his graduation night ten years before, an ex-con returns to his home town as a night manager of the local strip club/porn shop. But the town does not forget.
2 Acts
Average Size Cast [10]
1 hour 45 minutes
Drama. In the family-owned gas station in rural West Virginia in the late 1950's, the first small steps of racial tolerance are taken by a Klansman father whose daughter falls in love with one of the few black students in her newly desegregated high school.
2 Acts
Average Size Cast [9]
1 Hour 45 Minutes
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Drama. A badly traumatized young man re-lives episodes of his abusive past in an attempt to face down the potential triggers of his tenth high school class reunion.
2 Acts
Small Cast [7]
2 Hours
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Drama: On a hillside cemetery overlooking the mythical town of Grovers Corners, the ghosts of seven murdered young people await the arrival of their friend and brother after his death in the Iraqi War.
2 Acts
Small Cast [8]
2 Hours
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Drama: A young Catholic seminarian faces the question of mortal sin versus social condemnation as he learns that his younger brother has died from auto-erotic asphixia.
2 Acts
Small Cast [7]
1 Hour 45 Minutes
Drama. On his eightieth birthday, a WWII veteran confesses his war crimes to his family with heartbreaking results.
2 Acts
Small Cast [ 2m 5f]
2 Hours
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Drama. A late transitioning trans-gender poet and college professor finds chaos and ultimate tragedy as she tries to reconcile with her family.
2 Acts
Large Cast [6 Men, 7 Women]
2 Hours
Drama. A well meaning young Christian student is seduced by fame and politics in her quest to bring school prayer back to her high school.
2 Acts
Large Cast [7 Men 5 Women]
1 Hour 50 Minutes
Drama. A young woman courageously battles mental illness while trying to finish high school.
2 Acts
Small Cast [2 men 3 women]
1 Hour 40 Minutes
Drama. In the mid 1930's a German baker, his wife and granddaughters settle in the university town of Princeton, New Jersey to begin a new life. Yet the war and the son who chose to stay behind in the fatherland make the future far from secure.
2 Acts
Small Cast [ 5 men, 4 women]
1 Hour 55 MInutes
Drama. A group of orphaned teens, taught to speak in verse by their poet parents, find peace and love in the sanctuary of the forest.
2 Acts
Small Cast [2 m, 5 w]
1 Hour 45 Minutes
It's worth noting that the artistic freedom that allowed Kehde to create these pieces, also allowed him to be free from censorship of any kind, be it language, situations or the length of the piece. These dramas are offered exactly as they were produced, the productions themselves being the final determination for revision. Please note that most of these include stage directions and original set design or references to them. As his past actors will attest, Kehde considered stage direction as vital a part to any script as the words themselves.
Drama. In the aftermath of a tragic elementary school shooting, residents of the community in which the shooter lived look back at circumstances which led the troubled teen to such a horrible crime.
2 Acts
Large Cast [14 flexible]
2 hours