Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonCooper puts across the romantic sensibility of John Merrick in a well-presented production featuring Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro NivolaBradley Cooper is very good indeed as the eponymous hero of Bernard Pomerance's play. Eschewing medical realism, Cooper simply evokes the malformations of Joseph Merrick's body. Even his gait, with left knee permanently crooked, suggests a man whose…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20PM on May 31, 2015