The Erpingham Camp
The Erpingham Camp (1966) is a 52-minute television play by Joe Orton.[1]
The play was produced by Associated-Rediffusion for inclusion in the Seven Deadly Sins series, representing pride. Directed by James Ormerod, it was broadcast on 27 June 1966. Originally made in monochrome on videotape, it survives as a 16mm film telerecording.[2]
Orton subsequently contributed scripts for The Good and Faithful Servant and Funeral Games to the sequel Seven Deadly Virtues series - as faith and pride - but only Servant was actually included.
Plot
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.[3]
Cast
- Reginald Marsh - Erpingham
- Peter Reeves - Riley
- Angela Pleasence - Eileen
- Faith Kent - Lou
- Charles Rea - Ted
- John Forgeham - Kenny
- Peter Honri - W. E. Harrison
- Avril Fane - Jessie Mason
- Peter Evans - Padre
References
- ↑ "The Erpingham Camp (1966)".
- ↑ Simon Coward, Richard Down & Christopher Perry The Kaleidoscope British Independent Television Drama Research Guide 1955–2010, Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2nd edition, 2010, page 2911, ISBN 978-1-900203-33-3)
- ↑ "Joe Orton Life and Work". www.joeorton.org.