Pittsburgh City Paper: In 1981, a young Mark Hamill took the title role of The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance. Hamill was a Star Wars superstar, recognized everywhere as the original Jedi. What would compel Tatooine's finest to play a monstrous, slurring, slobbering sideshow freak? Why would a boyish celebrity trifle with the stage, much less a sad little drama about a Victorian cripple with a giant, disgusting head?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Elephant Man
Pittsburgh City Paper: In 1981, a young Mark Hamill took the title role of The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance. Hamill was a Star Wars superstar, recognized everywhere as the original Jedi. What would compel Tatooine's finest to play a monstrous, slurring, slobbering sideshow freak? Why would a boyish celebrity trifle with the stage, much less a sad little drama about a Victorian cripple with a giant, disgusting head?
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The Elephant Man is one of those plays. You know, the plays that people are always like, "You should go see it" but you never get around to it. Yep, thats Elephant man for me. It seams so interesting how it is both a true story, and how an actor needs to learn to have a 100% abnormal body structure. It also probably takes a very skilled actor to play the Elephant man because you have to be able to not only do the twists and turns but also do a whole show with that. That actor is defiantly a triple-threat actor, and deserves a lot of praise.
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