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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20041108
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH

Gong Donkeys

Bush, W12

ALMOST everyone in Richard Cameron's ironic comedy is caught up in the game of telling or enacting literary and soapopera stories, while concealing real-life problems.

Unfortunately, none of the narratives is interestingly or dramatically connected. For once, Mike Bradwell, the astute artistic director of the Bush, comes up with a blandly anaemic production.

Cameron jocularly subtitles Gong Donkeys "the story of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Ellen Ternan in Doncaster, as told by Catcher in the Rye, an ...

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