{"id":4931,"date":"2023-07-06T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/drama\/?page_id=4931"},"modified":"2023-10-26T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:36:31","slug":"the-mad-ones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/drama\/the-mad-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved\u2026 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam\u2019s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it\u2019s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not \u2013 impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly\u2019s killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision. Will she follow her mother\u2019s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can\u2019t imagine?\u201d<\/p>\n