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Evening opens conventionally with Amy Fox's "Double Click," a series of overlapping encounters among four subscribers to an online Jewish dating service. Reese Madigan amusingly conveys the alarmed defensiveness of a thrice-burned veteran of the dating wars, and Sarah Megan Thomas has an icy allure.

"Methinks," Lisa Ebersole's reunion at a party of a long-separated couple, breezes by in a whisper of mild one-upmanship.

Things get livelier and stakes get raised in Michael Weller's 1977 "Split: Part One," in the familiar course of which a seemingly contented couple (Thomas and Madigan) scarf down just enough white wine to reveal the secrets and jealousies that each has been harboring.

The snappiest entry is saved for last. Fox's "The Man Who Didn't Own a Hatshop" begins a la the game in "Annie Hall" in which Alvy and Annie speculate about the lives of passers-by. In a cafe two strangers (Proctor and Duff) take the game to the next level by claiming intimate connections to other patrons, and then professing that the stories are lies. Or are they?

As lights fade the two seem to have made a romantic connection, yet we know its foundation is the same tissue of untruths and uncertainty that bedeviled the principals in plays 1 through 4. Is love inevitably the victim of mendacity?