Memory Play
Founded in 1955, The Madras Players has over 300 productions to its credit.
Take a trip down memory lane with us…
1955-1965
| PLAY | PLAYWRIGHT | YEAR |
| 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 |
1966-1975
| PLAY | PLAYWRIGHT | YEAR |
| 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 |
1976-1985
| PLAY | PLAYWRIGHT | YEAR |
| 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 |
1986-1995
| PLAY | PLAYWRIGHT | YEAR |
| 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 |
1996-2004
| PLAY | PLAYWRIGHT | YEAR |
| 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 |
2005-2015
| 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 |
2016-2024
| PLAY | PLAYWRIGHT | DIRECTOR | YEAR |
| 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 |