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Shadow Catch

Shadow Catch

Marlatt, Daphne

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ISBN10: 1772015229
ISBN13: 9781772015225
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: May 24 2023
Pages: 63
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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'emeláy̓ 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. This is a story not only about characters from Vancouver's historical and cultural past, but about the journey and transformation that must take place in order to confront one's greatest fears and regrets.

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