Last week, the Brattle Theatre screened David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man ... and utters a hokey line to end the scene: “Am I a good man? Or am I a bad man?” It was moments like this ...

pointing to how Merrick’s mother had been “frightened by an elephant … during a time of pregnancy.” Given his predilection for the nightmarish and off-center, Lynch begins “The Elephant Man” by ...

“I am The Elephant Man," a well-known line from the play. Pomerance’s play gained fame because of the huge success of the adaptation, which first ran on the West End in London in 197 ...