In the repertory company of my mind, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play, "The Elephant Man" (now in its first Broadway revival since 2002, at the Booth), would rotate with a number of other dramas about human "freaks," who were further misshapen by fame and empire. (Suzan-Lori Parks's impressionistic beauty of a play, "Venus""about Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman, the African woman with a prominent derrière, who was billed as …
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on December 15, 2014