Nothing as garish as The Elephant Man can be good news. I'd be going in there expecting self-important bullshit. Indeed, the only real thing I'd go there to see is probably the Elephant Man himself, which either makes me one of the villains of the play itself or simply someone who isn't going simply to hear about how normality kills. Such an idea is itself an intrinsic part of the Elephant Man, both in theory and in the Elephant Man himself, his whole being, and so does not need to be so damned overdone. We get it, we get it, now entertain us.