Noh-influenced libretto by renowned Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt
The 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 Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Here four troubled spirits from the park's past appear to him: the Spirit of the Maple Tree from K'emk'emel?y̓ whose grove was decimated by loggers, a member of the brilliant...