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Kath Gotts

KATH GOTTS

  
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Kath Gotts studied Philosophy and Psychology at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and then went on to study music at Goldsmiths College, London. She has written incidental music and songs for television and theatre, including Bad Girls, The Fugitives, Family Affairs and Waterloo Road on TV and Dust, The Bodies and Any Which Way for theatre. She wrote the music and lyrics for Bad Girls The Musical which was produced at West Yorkshire Playhouse and at the Garrick Theatre in the West End. The show is now enjoying numerous productions on the amateur circuit both in the UK and internationally. Her new urban musical The Realness, with book by Maureen Chadwick and David Watson, premiered at Hackney Downs Studios in Autumn 2014 in a co-production with The Big House.

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below is a list of Kath Gotts's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bad Girls the Musical         Crush         Realness, The

Bad Girls the Musical

Synopsis:
Set in HMP Larkhall and featuring the characters from the first three series of the television show, Bad Girls the Musical tells the story of new idealistic Wing Governor Helen Stewart and her battles with the entrenched old guard of Officer Jim Fenner and his sidekick Sylvia Hollamby. It also follows the love story between Helen and inmate Nikki Wade, plus the assorted inmates Shell Dockley and her runner Denny Blood, old-timer Noreen Biggs. the two Julies and gangster's missus Yvonne atkins.

Notes:
music And lyrics by Kath Gotts; book by Maureen Chadwick And Ann McManus based on their TV series

1st Produced:
Garrick, London     2007

Organisations:
all Banged Up Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Crush

Crush
This is an S.O.S. message. Please Save Our School from imminent catastrophe. It's 1963 and Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits from all walks of life. So it's a crushing blow when the new Headmistress turns out to be a reactionary tyrant with strict Victorian values - and top of her hit list are the two Sixth-Formers accused of "Unnatural Behaviour" in the Art Room... But hope is revived by a glamorous Games Mistress known as 'Miss Givings' and it's hockey sticks to the fore in an all-out battle to save the school and the course of true love. A jolly smashing night out, Crush is a coming-of-age romp that celebrates and subverts the traditional schoolgirl fiction genre, with lashings of charm, team spirit and toe-tapping tunes.

Notes:
music And lyrics by Kath Gotts; book by Maureen Chadwick

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Big Broad Production

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
musical comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Realness, The

Synopsis:
When some people won't believe you've changed, and others don't want to let you change, it isn't easy to make a new start. Jay Johnson is fresh out of prison and determined never to go back inside, but for all his efforts to stay on track, he finds himself making a detour in the wrong direction. Finally he's faced with the hardest choice of his life and only then does he understand what he has to do to change things for real.

Notes:
With an upbeat score ranging from rap to reggae, gospel to grime, The Realness is a new musical with book by Maureen Chadwick & David Watson and music & lyrics by Kath Gotts. The show was directed by Big House Artistic Director Maggie Norris (whose idea it was) and featured video design by Tony Award-winning Mic Pool, music tracks produced by Semothy Jones (Plan B) and choreography by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille (Some Like It Hip-Hop).

1st Produced:
Hackney Downs Studios. 17, Amhurst Terrace, London E8 2Bt     13 Nov 2014

Organisations:
The Big House and Big Broad Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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