Shadow Catch - Daphne Marlatt

Noh-influenced Libretto By Renowned Canadian Poet Daphne Marlattthe Noh-influenced Libretto Of Shadow Catch Recounts The Dreams Or Are They Dreams? Of The Runaway, A Teenage Boy Who Ends Up One Night In Oppenheimer Park In Vancouvers Downtown Eastside. Here Four Troubled Spirits From The Parks Past Appear To Him: The Spirit Of The Maple Tree From Kemkemely Whose Grove Was Decimated By Loggers, A Member Of The Brilliant Asahi Baseball Team Whose Players Were Sent Off To Japanese Internment Camps, The Keeper Of A 1920s Brothel Who Is Haunted By The Tragic Death Of One Of Her Women, And A Roughneck Policeman From The 1930s Who Gave In To Corruption.