Broadway and West End classic from 1977. John Merrick is a deformed man who is exhibited as a monstrosity in a traveling freak show. In Victorian England, he is known as the Elephant Man. When the young and ambitious doctor, Frederick Treves takes him into a hospital in London with the ambition of making him a medical celebrity, both Treves and Merrick are caught in a complicated game of recognition and human dissimulation.
