Bradley Cooper's stupendous rendering of Joseph Merrick in director Scott Ellis' Broadway production of The Elephant Man is painful to watch -- both literally and figuratively. Merrick suffered from either neurofibromatosis type 1 or Proteus syndrome, or some combination of the two, which caused dramatic skin, facial and bodily deformities. Ellis chooses to convey his misshapenness to the audience by presenting large real-life photographs of Merrick. As the photographs are shown early in Act One...
Bradley Cooper's stupendous rendering of Joseph Merrick in director Scott Ellis' Broadway production of The Elephant Man is painful to watch -- both literally and figuratively. Merrick suffered from either neurofibromatosis type 1 or Proteus syndrome, or some combination of the two, which caused dramatic skin, facial and bodily deformities. Ellis chooses to convey his misshapenness to the audience by presenting large real-life photographs of Merrick. As the photographs are shown early in Act One...
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