By Randy Reinholz

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show is in town holding auditions, and the regulars at the Stewed Prunes Saloon are hoping for a shot at stardom.

But plans change when Momaday, a Pawnee teenager, is sentenced to hang for his forbidden love affair with an Irish-American girl. Captain Angelo, the presiding officer, won’t budge... until he lays eyes on Momaday’s sister, Isabel.

This irreverent, subversive adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure — described as “Blazing Saddles meets Shakespeare,” and Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s first play by a Native American writer — uses healthy doses of humor and music to illuminate the painful legacy of Indian boarding schools in the American West