David Benedict of THE INDEPENDENT had this to say about Julian McGowan's set on GABRIEL:
"Julian McGowan's beautifully dressed set creates a perfect sense of period atomosphere, which director Fiona Buffini lets her cast loose upon."Julian McGowan trained at the Central School of Art and Design. His designs for theatre include Don Juan, The Lodger and Women Laughing, Royal Exchange, Manchester, The Possibilities and The LA Plays, The Almeida; Making History (set only), Royal National Theatre; Heart Throb, The Bush; Prin, Lyric Hammersmith and The West End; Leonce and Lena, Crucible, Sheffield; The Rivals, Man and Superman, Playboy of the Western World and Hedda Gabler, Citizens, Glasgow; Imagine Drowning and Punchbag, Hampstead; Tess of the Durbevilles, West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Changeling (set only) and The Wives' Excuse, RSC; A Dolls House, Theatr Clwyd; Torquato Tasso, Edinburgh Festival; American Bagpipes and The Treatment, The Royal Court; Three Sisters, Break of Day and The Steward of Christendom, The Royal Court and Out of Joint; Old Times, Theatr Clwyd and the West End; Caesar and Cleopatra, Total Eclipse and A Tale of Two Cities, Greenwich Theatre. Opera designs include Cosi Fan Tutte, New Israeli Opera; Eugene Onegin, Scottish Opera and Siren Song, Almeida Opera Festival. Recent work includes: Simply Disconnected, Minerva, Chichester; Translations, Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Shopping and Fucking, Ambassadors Theatre and Out of Joint; Hamlet, Greenwich Theatre and tour and The Positive Hour, Hampstead Theatre and Out of Joint.
Last updated: 3 June 1999