Nohinfluenced libretto by renowned Canadian poet Daphne MarlattThe Nohinfluenced 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. This is a story not only about characters from Vancouvers historical and cultural past but about the journey and transformation that must take place in order to confront ones greatest fears and regrets.Each of the four acts in this sparse poetic libretto were set to music by composers Dorothy Chang Benton Roark Jennifer Butler and Farshid Samandari.