The Madras Players

The Madras Players
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  Fifty years ago we started out as a group of young theatre enthusiasts, mostly students, who were members of a play-reading group established by the British Council to promote English-language theatre.Our early efforts were confined to Shakespeare and classic British and American plays. We then went on to present contempory plays. In the late sixties and early seventies we attempted English translations of works by Indian Playwrights on Indian themes. These Plays were successful and well received by our audiences because of their relevance.Between 1963 and 1970 Girish Karnad was working in Madras and was an active member of our group as an actor, director and translator. To quote him In those seven years (with The Madras Players) I was involved with some twenty plays - by Pinter, Williams, Shaw, Beckett - and I learnt how language needs to be used on stage : the rhythm, the pacing, the allowances for breath and movement, the pause, the pitching. We also staged some translations by Sartre, Pirandello, Chekhov and so on, and quite diligently compared different versions before deciding on any one. This was excellent training and I asked myself why I couldn't translate my own plays.In the year 2000 we celebrated the year of the Chennai playwright. We presented plays by playwrights based in Chennai .Browning Version Terrence Rattigan,A Phoenix too frequent Twelfth Night,Shakespeare,Lady of the sonnets,Dear Departed, Apollo de bellac,Happy Journey, Gates of Paradies,Peer Gynt,Ibsen,Look back in Anger,John Osborne, Rope,Hassan Ibsen,The Proposal Anton Chekov,characters in search of an author Pirandello,Night of the Iguana,Tennessee Williams,A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller,Private Ear & Public? Eye Peter Shaffer,No Exit, Sartre,The Physicists,Duerrenmatt,The Promise Alesksi Arbuzov,The Caretaker,Harold Pinter,Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekov,Dock Brief,John Mortimer,White Liars,Peter Shaffer,Desire Under the Elms,Eugene o Neil,The Cherry Orchard,Anton Chekov, The Crucible Arthur Miller,Evam Indrajit Badal Sircar,Black Comedy,Peter Shaffar,Silence! The Court is in Session,Vijay Tendulkar,Mrichakatika Shudraka,Yayati Girish Karnad,Tiger Tiger, Dina Mehta,Old Times,Harold Pinter,Macbeth Shakespeare,Androcles and the Lion,GB shaw,The Real Inspector Wound,Tom Stoppard,The Important of Being Earnest,Oscar Wilde,The Royal Hunt of the Sun,Peter Shaffer,Betrayal,Harold Pinter,The Elephant Man,David Pommerance Romulus the Great,Duerrenmatt,Alice inWonderland,Lewis Caroll,This English,Sakharam Binder,Vijay Tendulkar,Adhay Adhure,Mohan Rakesh,Point Of View David Campton,End of the Picnic,David Campton,Lunchtime Concert,Owen Wymark,Tales from the New Yorker,Surya Shikar,Utoal Dutt,Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar,Uproar in the house,Dark Designs,Plaza Suite,Peter Shaffer,Eqqus Neil Simon, Here lies Jeremy Troy,Jack Sharkey,Bedroom Farce,Alan Ayckborn,Birthday Party,Harold Pinter,Murder of Mr. Mississippi Duerrenmat,Next The Sound Of Murder,William Fairch