Tag Archives: Catch The Keys Productions

Tracks: choose your route in an online theatre adventure from Amoris Projects

Posted on May 12, 2020 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started out as an ambulatory theatre adventure. Tracks let its audiences loose to wander in an unexpected assortment of rooms and spaces — a theatre box office, dressing rooms, bathrooms, the playwright’s car — to … Continue reading →

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Giving thanks for theatre: the long weekend on E-town stages

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

  By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the moment to be thankful for Edmonton’s most captivating arts asset – our theatre scene. Many possibilities are waiting for you this weekend, including a macabre entertainment spun from our own neglected history. And … Continue reading →

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Dead Centre of Town unearths our dark civic secrets

Posted on October 8, 2019 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We have a checkered past, my friends. You could say we’re haunted. For a dozen years now, in the season of ghostly chills, Catch The Keys Productions has been taking us on location, into the boneyard … Continue reading →

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Chills and thrills in a theatre town: stake out a stage near you

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Uncanny, isn’t it?, how often the words “ordinary nice polite guy-next-door” show up in reports of homicidal rampages? Researcher Eugene Crowley, the noted “mind-hunter,” is in town this week to give a public lecture on the … Continue reading →

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Defy gravity at your peril: Dead Centre Of Town XI at Fort Edmonton

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The principle of “what goes up must come down” as applied to air travel isn’t an entirely comforting thought. Defying gravity might have been a blast for Peter Pan but, trust me, it doesn’t always work … Continue reading →

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The fear of flying, and the return of Dead Centre of Town

Posted on October 18, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ladies and gentlemen, we will be boarding tonight by zone. The dead centre zone. For 11 years now, Catch the Keys Productions has been leading us on nocturnal Halloween expeditions into the macabre, digging in the … Continue reading →

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Scare yourself, run away to the circus: Dead Centre of Town X, a review

Posted on October 19, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even before the fog rolls in at Fort Edmonton Park , an abandoned midway on an autumn night is an eerie sight. An empty skeleton of a ferris wheel, rides without seats, boardwalks across empty fields, a … Continue reading →

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See “something Edmonton never gets to see” this week: Bibish de Kinshasa at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on October 17, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, Edmonton, your theatre week is full of intriguing shows that “Edmonton never gets to see,” as L’UniThéâtre’s Brian Dooley puts it.  *Starting Wednesday, L’UniThéâtre, our hospitable francophone theatre, is hosting a cabaret/play like no other. … Continue reading →

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A horror show from history: Dead Centre of Town is back to haunt the Fort

Posted on October 12, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the chilly season when the veil between the present and the past is at its thinnest. And this, my friends, is a haunted place. Catch The Keys Productions is once again leading us on an … Continue reading →

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