"The Elephant Man"

"The Elephant Man": Tony-Winning Drama of Dignity and Disfigurement

Winner of the coveted Tony Award for Best Play for its 1979 Broadway debut, the emotional drama "The Elephant Man"'s strange and moving tale of a man named Merrick comes to Maryland Ensemble Theatre. Severely disfigured by a mysterious ailment that transformed his body into a mass of bulbous, twisted flesh so shocking to the eye that he was shunned by Victorian society, Merrick was eventually saved from a life spent on display in a freak show by a young doctor named Frederick Treves. Taken into the physician's care, Merrick became a celebrated fixture of London's social scene ... but with a worsening condition, his dream of becoming "normal" remained forever out of reach.