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<p>A casting session for a play about a love affair goes awry. A talk-back with a theater audience becomes the occasion for a life-altering choice. A couple moving in together finds that greater intimacy can be a mixed blessing when even the surface of their dialogue is stripped away.<br> </p> <p>Metatheatrical antics abound in Itamar Moses’s <i>Love/Stories (or, but you will get used to it),</i> five one-act meditations on modern love and on the act of telling stories — in which a variety of inventive devices stresses the ineradicable gap between art and experience. Reminiscent of the works<br> </p> <p>of both Samuel Beckett and David Foster Wallace in their verbal dexterity, humor, and generosity, the plays collected in <i>Love/Stories</i> constitute an important addition to the contemporary American theater by one of our most exciting young playwrights.</p> <br>