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The Elephant Man

by Bernard Pomerance

Ross the barker and Dr. Treves

An Orderly, John Merrick, Dr. Treves and Mrs. Sandwich

John Merrick and Mrs. Kendal

Mrs. Kendal, John Merrick, Dr. Frederick Treves

Bishop Walsham How and Dr. Treves

The Set for The Elephant Man

A sample of Between the Scenes Music (356 KB)
Original Music by Marc Raco
Copyright 2002 by Marc Raco
with permission

John Merrick was a real person who spent the years from 1886 to his death in 1890 in the London Hospital, Whitechapel.  His story has been told numerous times, in the memoirs of Fredrick Treves (1923), in Ashley Montagu's The Elephant Man (1971), in Leslie Fiedlerr's Freaks (1978), and in Frederick Drimmer's Very Special People (1973).  The model of St. Philip's Church that Merrick constructed can be seen today in the London Hospital.