The Erpingham Camp

The Erpingham Camp (1966) is a 52-minute television play by Joe Orton, which was later performed on stage.

[1][2] The play was originally produced by Associated-Rediffusion for inclusion in the Seven Deadly Sins series, representing pride.

[3] 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.

The Erpingham Camp was first performed on stage in June 1967, as part of a double bill with The Ruffian on the Stair titled Crimes of Passion at the Royal Court Theatre, in a production by Peter Gill.

[5][6] 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".