The Elephant Man is a play by Bernard Pomerance. It premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in London on 7 November 1977. It later played in repertory at the National Theatre in London. [1] It ran off-Broadway from 14 January to 18 March 1979, at The Theatre of St. Peter's.

Jan 1, 2001 · The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance is a script for a play, based on the life of John Merrick, a psychically disabled man, with numerous body mutations and defects, that made him look a bit like half-man, and half an elephant.

“The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is inspired by the life of John Merrick. Merrick, a young man in Victorian London, experiences profound challenges due to his grotesque deformities. Stricken with a unique medical condition, he is often displayed as a …

The Elephant Man, a one-act play by American playwright Bernard Pomerance, was first produced in London at the Hampstead Theatre in 1977. The play transferred to New York and played Off-Broadway in 1979, moving to Broadway three months later, where it …

Treves’s published account of Merrick’s life sparked Bernard Pomerance’s interest in the life of this man, whom he calls “John Merrick” in this drama.

With very few options open to him, Merrick (whose first name is John in Pomerance’s play) is forced to display himself to the public in travelling sideshows. Eventually, however, he finds himself alone and destitute in London.

Oct 17, 2020 · The Elephant Man [BBC Drama] From Victorian fairground freak to social celebrity - the true story of John Merrick, whose hideously deformed body cruelly hid the mind of a sensitive and intelligent being.

The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance, an American living in London, has won both the Drama Critics' Circle and Antoinette Perry (Tony) Awards for best play of the season, and, for all I know, some of those

However, the acting was solid, with stellar performances by Brian Lange as Frederick Teves the surgeon who rescues and befriends Merrick, and Matthew Gilbert as John Merrick himself. In the original play, as in this one, Merrick’s condition was suggested by facial expressions rather than elaborate make-up, and Gilbert’s ability to ...

Bernard Pomerance In 1880s London, John Merrick is a horribly deformed young man – a victim of rare skin and bone diseases. Under the care of celebrated physician Frederick Treves, Merrick slowly evolves from an object of pity to an urbane gentleman, desperate to be recognized as a man like any other.