How do you say the idea of "drama" in Vietnamese?

I've been thinking about your question the whole day yesterday. Still...struggling to find the right single word in vnmese for it. I would suggest the word "sinh chuyện", but i'm still not totally happy with it.
"Sinh" means to give birth, to create, to invent
"Chuyện" means story, "drama", trouble, something that unpleasant
When Vietnamese says this word to a person, it really means that that person is troublesome, thinking too much, or wanting to create trouble.

mau me?

mau for colour. Mau me is more flamboyant, outrageous, over-the-top.

The google translate for drama gives kich with the period under i.

Maybe a local Vietnamese can give more insight if 'kich' is the right word or close.

Say Đu  ma, dep  hết  di

9000:  I expect that one reason your are getting so many different responses is that you are using the word "drama" in it's more recent colloquial sense, meaning stressful interpersonal relations, rather than its basic usage, of a performance.  It is certainly more difficult to go from idiom to idiom.

From the urbandictionary.com:  Drama:  Something women and especialy teenage girls thrive on. consisting of any number of situations that have an easy solution, wich would bring a fairly good outcome, but these girls choose another, shitty, bad way to deal with it, again consisting of backstabbing, blackmailing/gossiping/betraying their friends, or the all-too-common "I want to break up with him but i still love him!"
it drives men and what i like to call "normal" girls nuts.

A second less sexist definition is:  making a big deal over something unneccessarily [no spelling corrections made]