STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. — If durability defines the worth of a play, “The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is, at the very least, a good play, and possibly a great one. The production offered by ...
Last week, the Brattle Theatre screened David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man.” Released in 1980, the Victorian drama tells the story of real-life Joseph Merrick (renamed “John” in the film), a man born ...
From a desperate existence in a Victorian freak show to his days as the toast of London high society, the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, has fascinated the world for well over a century.