The Erpingham Camp

The Erpingham Camp (1966) is a play by Joe Orton, originally written for television.

It is a farce in which a respectable group of English campers are innocently enjoying themselves at a 1960s holiday camp before catastrophe strikes and they find themselves fighting against the camp's demonic, rigid, moral and patronising manager, "Erpingham". The play is loosely based on The Bacchae by Euripides.^[1]

References

↑ Joe Orton Online

External links

Joe Orton Online

The works of Joe Orton

Plays	Fred and Madge (1959) The Visitors (1961) Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) The Ruffian on the Stair (1964) Loot (1966) The Erpingham Camp (1966) The Good and Faithful Servant (1967) Funeral Games (1968) What the Butler Saw (1969)

Adaptations	Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) Loot (1970)

Other work	Head to Toe (1959/1971) Up Against It (1967/1979) The Orton Diaries (1986) Lord Cucumber (2001) The Boy Hairdresser (2001)

Related articles	Prick Up Your Ears (1987 film) Prick Up Your Ears (2009 play)

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