The Madras Players, a Chennai-based theatre group is celebrating its 65th anniversary. While each year, the group premieres a new play on the occasion, the lockdown has egged them to embrace the digital medium. As such, through the month of May, they are hosting an online festival bringing back recorded versions of some of their popular plays over the years including Julius Caesar, Chudamani and Water. The three plays that have already been screened will return in June along with a tribute to Girish Karnad, who spent his early theatre days with the group. Here are a few you can catch this month.

Midnight Hotel

A play commissioned by The Madras Players to author Sreekumar Varma and directed by the late Mithran Devanesan, it is a spooky tale set in a hotel in Pondicherry, complete with special effects achieved using lighting by designer Victor Paulraj.