Pearson, who lives with neurofibromatosis, has been cast as Joseph Casey Merrick in an upcoming adaptation of Bernard Pomerance's renowned play, The Elephant Man ... Actor for John Hurt, and ...

became known as "the Elephant Man" as an exhibit at freak shows due to his severe physical disfigurements. John Hurt previously portrayed Merrick in director David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant ...

Adam Pearson, who last year starred with Sebastian Stan in A Different Man, has been cast in the lead role of John Merrick in a new adaptation of the play The Elephant Man. READ MORE ...

Adam Pearson will star in a new adaptation of ‘The Elephant Man.’ Moby Pomerance adapted ... Lynch’s Oscar-nominated 1980 movie, where John Hurt took on the lead. That project had no direct ...

The production is uniformly strong in all respects as is the cast. Even the unseasonably cold and damp weather during the ...

“The Elephant Man,” while Lynch’s most restrained, traditional work, still bears his stamp. The movie begins with Treves (Anthony Hopkins) attempting to visit Merrick (John Hurt) at a freak ...

If durability defines the worth of a play, “The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is, at the very least, a good play, and ...

Berkshire Theatre Group opens summer season with revival of "The Elephant Man," a famed play about a beautiful soul in a ...