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Founded in 1955, The Madras Players has over 300 productions to its credit.
Take a trip down memory lane with us…

1955-1965
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Browning Version Terrence Rattigan 1955-60
A Phoenix Too Frequent Christopher Fry 1955-60
Twelfth Night Shakespeare 1955-60
The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets Bernard Shaw 1955-60
Dear Departed William Stanley Houghton 1955-60
Apollo de Bellac Jean Giraudoux 1955-60
Happy Journey 1955-60
Gates Of Paradise Jerzy Andrzejewski 1955-60
Peer Gynt Ibsen 1960-64
Look Back In Anger John Osborne 1960-64
The Rope Alfred Hitchcock 1960-64
Hassan Ibsen 1960-64
The Proposal Anton Chekov 1960-64
Six Characters In search Of An Author Pirandello 1960-64
Night Of The Iguana Tennessee Williams 1965
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A View From The Bridge Arthur Miller 1966
Private Ear & Public Eye Peter Shaffer 1966
No Exit Sartre 1967
The Physicists Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Promise Alesksi Arbuzov 1968
The Caretaker Harold Pinter
Uncle Vanya Anton Chekov 1968
White Liars Peter Shaffer 1968
Desire Under the Elms Eugene O′ Neil 1969
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekov
The Crucible Arthur Miller 1969
Evam Indrajit Badal Sircar 1969
Dock Brief John Mortimer 1970
Black Comedy Peter Shaffar 1971
Silence! The Court Is In Session Vijay Tendulkar 1971
Mrichakatika Shudraka 1971
Yayati Girish Karnad 1971
Tiger Tiger Dina Mehta 1973
Macbeth Shakespeare 1973
Old Times Harold Pinter 1974
Androcles And The Lion Bernard Shaw 1974
The Royal Hunt Of The Sun Peter Shaffer 1974
Betrayal Harold Pinter 1974
The Elephant Man David Pommerance 1974
Romulus The Great Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1974
Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar
The Real Inspector Hound Tom Stoppard
The Important Of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
Alice In Wonderland Lewis Caroll 1975
Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh 1975
Point Of View David Campton 1975
End of the Picnic David Campton 1975
Lunchtime Concert Owen Wymark 1975
Tales From The New Yorker Compilation 1975
Surya Shikar Utpal Dutt 1975
This English Compilation
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Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar 1976
Uproar In The House Terence Dicks 1976
Plaza Suite Neil Simon 1977
Eqqus Peter Shaffer 1978
Here lies Jeremy Troy Jack Sharkey 1979
Bedroom Farce Alan Ayckbourn 1979
Birthday Party Harold Pinter 1979
Next Terrence McNally
The Marriage Of Mr. Mississippi Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1980
The Sound Of Murder William Fairchilld 1980
Kamala Vijay Tendulkar 1980
For The Rain It Raineth Everyday Elizabethan Compilation 1980
Freedom For Clemens Tankred Dorst 1980
The Revealing Mink
Talk Talk
Automobiles Compilation 1981
Jaswandi Sai Paranjpe 1981
Dirty Linen Tom Stoppard 1981
Dark Designs Lucille Fletcher ( Adaptation) 1981
The Sword Of Tipu Sultan Bhagwan S Gidwani
The Real Inspector Hound Tom Stoppard 1982
Mira Gurcharan Das 1982
A New Borning Sylvia Plath 1983
Our Town Thornton Wilder 1983
The Exception & The Rule Bertolt Brecht 1984
Waking Up Dario Fo & Franca Rame 1984
A Woman Alone Dario Fo & Franca Rame 1984
A View From The Bridge Arthur Miller 1985
Sons Mohan Narayanan 1985
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Artist Descending A Staircase Tom Stoppard 1986
The Shadow Box Michael Cristofer 1986
Humanity We Love You
Black Identity
Consider This And In Our Time
Dogg&rsquos Hamlet Tom Stoppard 1987
Bhrama&rsquos Hair Menaka Gandhi & Mithran Devanesan 1987
Play It Again, Sam Woody Allen 1988
Scenes From A Marriage Ingmar Bergman 1988
Let Sleeping Wives lie Brooke & Bannerman 1989
No Limits To Love David Mercer 1989
All My Sons Arthur Miller 1990
Who&rsquos Afraid Of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee 1990
Poor Murderer Pavel Cahout 1990
Sikku
Tiger Murray Schisgal 1991
Fragments Murray Schisgal 1991
Hayavadana Girish Karnad 1991
This English Compilation 1991
Halfway Up A Tree Peter Ustinov 1991
The Inquisitor Timer Murari 1992
The Monkey Grammarian's Funeral Octavio paz 1992
Slow Dissolve Chetan Shah 1992
The Bow Of Rama Shreekumar Varma 1993
Credit Titles Vijay Padaki 1993
Shanti Shanti It&rsquos A War R Ramanathan 1993
Smoke Signals Compilation 1993
A Retrospective Vikram Seth
Sex: The Most Fun You Can Have Without Laughing
A Winter&rsquos Tale William Shakespeare 1994
A Rose By Any Other Name Emillo Carballido 1994
The Inner Space Emillo Carballido 1994
Lovers are not people Tim Murari 1994
Conversations Compilation 1995
Mixed Doubles Compilation
Revue 1995
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Squabbles Marshall Karp 1996
Reflections Mahesh Elkunchwar 1996
Mangalam Poile Sengupta 1996
The Typist Murray Schisgal 1996
The Flatulist Murray Schisgal 1996
Plaza Suite Neil Simon 1996
Macmillan Translations Indian Novels 1996
Dada German Literary Movement 1996
California Suite Neil Simon 1997
Durang Durang Christoper Durang 1997
Laughing Wild Christoper Durang 1997
Midnight Train Seneka Abeyratne 1997
Salim’s Choice Seneka Abeyratne 1997
Interrogation Murphy Guyer 1997
Virtuous Burglar Dario Fo 1997
Larins Sahib Gurcharan Das 1997
The Real Thing Tom Stoppard 1997
When the Wind Blows Raymond Briggs 1997
Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas 1997
Dance Like a man Mahesh Dattani 1997
Do the Needful Mahesh Dattani 1998
Kanyadaan Vijay Tendulkar 1998
The Jewish Wife Bertolt Brecht 1998
Senora Carrar’s Rifles Bertolt Brecht 1998
Art Yasmina Reza 1998
An Evening With Gurcharandas Gurucharan Das 1998
An Evening With Asokamithran Asokamithran 1998
An Evening With Mahesh Dattani Mahesh Dattani 1999
Picasso At The Lapin Agile Steve Martin 1999
Urfaust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1999
Final Solutions Mahesh Dattani 1999
Monty Python & Other Nuts Monty Python 1999
Seven Steps Around the Fire Mahesh Dattani 1999
Girish Karnad – A Melange Girish Karnad 1999
The Dreams Of Tipu Sultan Girish Karnad 2000
Bum Jaspar Utley 2000
Three Women & A Dead Man Jaspar Utley 2000
Anna Weiss Mike Cullen 2000
Under One Roof Sabitha Radhakrishna 2000
Leave us alone Sunipa Basu 2000
Closer Apart Anupama Chandrasekar 2000
So Far So Good Harsha Dandapani 2000
A Time For Decision Krupasagar Sridharan 2000
Only Women Shekinah Jebaraj 2000
Shadow On The Grass Reshma Nichani 2000
Manuscript In The Mail Anushka Ravishankar 2000
Endless Pathways K R Usha 2000
Slow Dissolve Chetan Shah 2000
The Lizard Waltz Chetan Shah 2000
The Birds Have Not Come To Vedanthangal This Year Mohan Narayanan 2001
Color Me Lardner Ring Lardner Sr 2001
Listen To Me Tanika Gupta 2001
Trolley Rage Jasper Utley 2001
London Suite Neil Simon 2001
In Letter And Spirit Vijay Padaki 2001
Selections From Bernard Shaw Bernard Shaw 2001
Pub Crawl Gautam Raja 2001
Four Rooms Of Ecstasy Antony Boyer 2001
Drinking Companions Alan Ayckbourn 2001
The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets Bernard Shaw 2001
En Attendant Francois David Crampton 2001
Seductions Of A Wedding Night Steven Key Mayers 2001
The Game Of Chess Kenneth Sawyer Goodman 2001
Thread O' Scarlet John Joy Bell 2001
A Little Death Jaspar Utley 2001
Fur Better Or Worse Colin Donald 2001
Twelfth Night Shakespeare 2002
It's Okay To Dream William Shakespeare 2002
The Poor Defenceless Creature, & Excerpts From The Good Doctor Neil Simon 2002
Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni Poile Sengupta 2002
Phoenix Anushka Ravishankar 2002
Ashwaha Mohan Narayanan 2003
The Arrangement Neil Simon 2003
The Governess Anton Chekov 2003
Loyalty John Patrick 2003
Do You Love Me, & Cockroach Collector Anushka Ravishankar 2003
A Temporary Matter Jhumpa Lahiri - Nikhila Kesavan 2003
A Little Death Jasper Utley 2003
Fur Better Or Worse Colin Donald 2003
Open Couple Dario Fo & Franca Rame 2003
Lost Louise Wilson 2003
Philadelphia & Incident At Twilight 2004
A Rehearsed Reading Of Excerpts from Atma 2004
Nagamandala: Play With A Cobra Girish Karnad 2004
A Madras Players Get-Together 2004
The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets Bernard Shaw 2004
PLAY PLAYWRIGHT DIRECTOR YEAR
Platform Shree Kumar Varma N S Yamuna 2005
Mercy Sivasankari Mithran Devanesan 2005
Sanskrit Theatre - A Presentation 2005
Evam Indrajit Badal Sarkar Bhagirathi Narayanan & Evam 2005
The Final Twist Ken Whitmore & Alfred Bradley N S Yamuna 2005
Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh Anushka Ravishankar 2005
Actors' Workshop Gareth Armstrong 2005
Hayavadana Girish Karnad N S Yamuna 2005
A Word Between Us Vasantha Surya S Ramachander 2005
Proof David Auburn Mithran Devanesan 2006
Rural Phantasy Kalki - Gowri Ramnarayan Gowri Ramnarayan 2006
And Sunshine Follows The Rain Harry MacLure Rajiv Krishnan 2006
The Shadow Box Michael Cristofer Mithran Devanesan 2006
Disparate Housewives - Habit & Loyalty John Patrick Mithran Devanesan 2006
Disparate Housewives - Interrogation Murphy Guyer Mithran Devanesan 2006
Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat - Nikhila Kesavan Nikhila Kesavan 2007
Flame Of The Forest Gowri Ramnarayan Gowri Ramnarayan 2007
Welcome to Andromeda Ron Whyte J Rajiv Choudhry 2007
Acid Anupama Chandrasekhar Anupama Chandrasekhar 2007
Sruti, Smriti - Kriti V Sriram - Prasanna Ramaswamy Prasanna Ramaswamy 2007
Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat - Nikhila Kesavan Nikhila Kesavan 2008
Song Of The Loom Sabita Radhakrishna Indrani Krishnaier & T T Srinath 2008
Faith Healer Brian Friel Mithran Devanesan 2008
Outcaste Eternal Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan & Nirmala Seshadri Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan & Nirmala Seshadri 2008
Midnight Hotel Shreekumar Varma Mithran Devanesan 2009
One Day In Ashadha Mohan Rakesh Gowri Ramnarayan 2009
Swami And Friends R K Narayan - Manasi Subramaniam Aruna Ganesh Ram 2009
Tunnel Vision Shandana Minhas - Nikhila Kesavan Nikhila Kesavan 2009
Swami And Friends R K Narayan - Manasi Subramaniam Aruna Ganesh Ram 2010
Witness For The Prosecution Agatha Christie N S Yamuna 2010
A Gowri Ramnarayan Retrospective Various - Gowri Ramnarayan Gowri Ramnarayan 2010
Whose Wife Is She Anyway! Georges Feydeau - V Balakrishnan V Balakrishnan 2010
Doubt John Patrick Shanley Michael Muthu 2010
Karna Prasanna Ramaswamy Prasanna Ramaswamy 2011
Bhopal Rahul Varma Dushyanth Gunashekar 2011
Land Of The Free Gowri Ramnarayan Gowri Ramnarayan 2011
Proof David Auburn Michael Muthu 2011
Cast Party Shreekumar Varma Michael Muthu 2012
Silence! The Court Is In Session Vijay Tendulkar Vinod Anand 2012
Private Lives Noel Coward Sushmaa Ahuja 2012
Water Komal Swaminathan; translation by S Shankar P C Ramakrishna 2012
Tara Mahesh Dattani Tehzeeb Katari 2013
Tughlaq Girish Karnad Vinod Anand 2013
Serious Men Manu Joseph - Nikhila Kesavan Nikhila Kesavan 2013
Mangalam Poile Sengupta Abhinav Suresh 2013
Kamala Vijay Tendulkar Sushmaa Ahuja 2014
Honour Nandini Krishnan P C Ramakrishna 2014
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Tanvi Patel 2014
Animal Farm George Orwell - Peter Hall Mathivanan Rajendran 2014
What Will People Say? Francis Swann - Adaptation by Vaishwath Shankar Vaishwath Shankar 2015
Gaslight Patrick Hamilton Michael Muthu 2015
California Suite Neil Simon Various 2015
Rope Alfred Hitchcock (Adaptation) Abhinav Suresh 2015
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Six Characters In Search Of An Author Luigi Pirandello Michael Muthu 2016
The Mousetrap Agatha Christie Abhinav Suresh 2016
Chudamani R Chudamani - Prabha Sridevan (translation) - Nikhila Kesavan (adaptation) P C Ramakrishna 2016
Water Komal Swaminathan; Translation By S Shankar P C Ramakrishna 2016
Romeo And Juliet William Shakespeare Michael Muthu 2017
Bonding With Ruskin Ruskin Bond - Adaptation By Dushyanth Gunashekar Dushyanth Gunashekar 2017
It Runs In The Family Ray Cooney Nilu 2017
Madaiah The Cobbler H S Shivaprakash; Translation By Lakshmi Chandrasekhar Prasanna Ramaswamy 2017
Dial M For Murder Frederick Knott Shaan Katari Libby 2018
The Man From Earth Jerome Bixby Yohan Chacko 2018
Out Of Order Ray Cooney Nilu 2018
Trinity Seetha Ravi - Prabha Sridevan (Translation) - P C Ramakrishna (Dramatization) P C Ramakrishna 2018
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Shaan Katari Libby 2019
Laila And Jamal Manu Joseph - Nikhila Kesavan Nikhila Kesavan 2019
A P C Ramakrishna Retrospective Various P C Ramakrishna 2019
Midnight Hotel Shreekumar Varma Victor Paulraj 2019
Making It A Habit Yohan Chacko Yohan Chacko 2020
Various Online Performances Various Tehzeeb Katari, Shaan Katari Libby, Yohan Chacko 2020-2021
Dear Omana: Notes On How To Be A Literary Sensation Krishna Shastri Devulapalli - Nikhila Kesavan (Adaptation) Nikhila Kesavan 2022
Lakshmikanthan P C Ramakrishna (Dramatization) P C Ramakrishna 2022
Lakshmikanthan P C Ramakrishna (Dramatization) P C Ramakrishna 2023
Relatively Speaking Alan Ayckbourn Tehzeeb Katari 2023
Kamalakshi Sujatha Vijayaraghavan P C Ramakrishna 2023
Chudamani 2 R Chudamani - Adaptation By P C Ramakrishna P C Ramakrishna 2024