The production designs, by Pamela Howard and Miriam Nabarro, effectively convey the passage of time through a lyrical visual shorthand that includes a mural of Afghan history that is whitewashed into blankness.

New York Times

08/12/2010

At its best, it demonstrates dramatically rather than explaining. Pamela Howard’s vivid painted backdrop shows honey-coloured rock, a vestigially monumental Bhudda statue and beards floating among clouds, the painting is first Talibanned : denounced and daubed over with whitewash with disconcerting realism ( the mural does in fact have to be recovered at the end of every performance ) Later, as the Twin Towers fall, it topples down, giving way to a technicolour cerulean sky and poppyfield....

Susanna Clapp

The Observer

Directors (Nicholas ) Kent and Indhu Rubasingham continue to imbue each piece with fierce,coherent life and, most movingly of all, Pamela Howard's beautiful painted mural backdrop is whitewashed by Taliban henchmen, then collapses to give way to an uninterrupted vista of poppy fields…

Fiona Mountford

Evening Standard

and Pamela Howard's design evokes to stunning effect. The Twin Towers crumbling as a drawbridge of white opium poppies is lowered into place...

…And I can only salute the entire cast...., and the design of Pamela Howard and Miriam Nabarro. Something remarkable is happening at the Tricycle, where Afghan history and culture are being made in a uniquely challenging, theatrically exciting way

Michael Billington

The Guardian