The Ruffian on the Stair: A mysterious visitor arrives at Mike and Joyce's flat and demands lodgings. He unravels details of their past and unleashes chaos and murder.

The Erpingham Camp: Orton's version of the Bacchae is a modern parable on pride. It charts with devastating humour, a revolt by campers against Red coats at a 1960s British holiday resort.

I used autumnal colours and an odd assortment of furniture to convey the seedy bedsit world of Mike and Joyce. The scene change to the Epringham camp was staged in front of the audience, executed by a team of smiling Red Coats. I felt that the map was an important symbol of Erpingham's colonial attitude, which formed an incongruous back drop to the warring campers as they fight for freedom.

The costume designer and I worked together to produce a garish palette of colours that echoed both the reaction to postwar austerity and the tones found in 1950s and 60s colour photographs.