By Steven Deitz
Directed by Brad V. Olsen
April 13, 14, 15, 16
8:00 pm Curtain
Eccles Performing Arts Center
Adults: $6.50
Seniors/High School & Younger: $6.00
Snow College Students: $2.00 w/Activity Card
Season Ticket
Adults: $20.50
Seniors/High School & Younger: $19.00
The true story of John Merrick; a man whose body is hideously deformed, but within
is a remarkably sensitive and intelligent being. Merrick is exploited by Victorian
society and philanthropy. He is befriended by an ambitious and brilliant young surgeon
who looks after him in his last few years—finding him a home in a London hospital
where the lovable freak's presence is shrewdly used for fund-raising. Merrick is introduced
to high society, becoming dependent on the success his deformity brings him. A well-known
actress tries to ease his loneliness, but her efforts are thwarted by hypocrisy. Even
those who love him can't help him and ultimately he dies from his horrible affliction.