Directed by Indhu Rubisingham and Nick Kent, designed by Miriam Nabarro and Pamela Howard, lit by James Farncombe
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 manifest in a uniquely challenging, theatrically exciting way.
**** Micheal Billington, The Guardian
Gemma Redgrave in Stephen Jeffrey’s play set in 1842, the first in a play cycle of twelve plays by contemporary playwrights, directed by Indhu Rubusingham and Nick Kent, designed by Pamela Howard and Miriam Nabarro. The cycle was a sell out and later toured to the US , and was the first play to be staged inside the Pentagon in 2010.
… the production designs by Pamela Howard and Miriam Nabarro, convey the passage of time through lyrical visual shorthand that includes a mural of Afghan history that is whitewashed into blankness…
New York Times, 2010
During the show, echoing the true story of the famous painted forced to watch as his murals were whitewashed in Kandahar, the mural of Afghan History was whitewashed out each night…
As Ben Ockrent’s play Honey unfolds, the planes crash into the Twin Towers, which is projected onto the back wall, which falls hydraulically to reveal a field of poppies…