The Elephant Man | Capsule Comments
Calling The Elephant Man ‘‘easily the best play thus far of the 1978–79 New York theatre season,’’ the critic offers a brief, favorable review of Pomerance’s play.
The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance, is easily the best play thus far of the 1978–79 New York theatre season. (No one need remind me that that could be taken as a somewhat left-handed compliment.)
Currently at the new Theatre of St. Peter’s Church in the Citicorp Building, but about to transfer to a larger, more ‘‘commercial’’ milieu, it has its flaws but offers the most compelling evening of drama in New York today.
Pomerance has based his play on an actual ‘‘freak’’ of the Victorian era, John Merrick, who suffered from a mysterious...
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