Joseph Merrick kept his hideous face hidden behind a burlap sack. Another thing that’s hidden is his actual real life story. Don’t trust the movie—the truth is even more astonishing.

The Elephant Man is based on the life of Joseph Merrick, who was born in Victorian London and suffered from a hideously deforming disease that resulted in overgrowths of bone and hanging excrescences ...

Can you judge character traits like dignity, pride or selfishness by appearance? That’s the question director Alan Shorter examines in the play The Elephant Man. Originally penned by Bernard Pomerance ...