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This award-winning drama by Bernard Pomerance chronicles the final years in the life of Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), a remarkably sensitive and intelligent man, who was afflicted with an extremely rare hereditary disorder. Known only as “The Elephant Man” because of his monstrously deformed body, Merrick scrapes a living as a carnival attraction until an ambitious young doctor provides him with a home at the London Hospital in Whitechapel where his presence is shrewdly used by Victorian society to raise funds. Merrick befriends an actress who tries to ease his loneliness but her efforts are thwarted by hypocrisy. Even those who love him can’t help him.
“Unforgettable, engrossing and moving.” – New York Daily News
