.Jeffrey Edalatpour & Metro Staff

She and He are paramours. They're listed, neutrally, as such in the dramatis persona of Sarah Ruhl's play. After a long period of estrangement, they've both been cast in the same play: The Last Kiss, a costume melodrama that's deliberately overwritten. In the play within a play, She and He are also reunited lovers. And the mirroring of selves, past and present, fictional and real, multiplies. Ruhl, effortlessly holding all the strings, asks the question, What if you were required to kiss that lost love of yours, the one you fantasize about during a dull patch in your life and marriage? Would the spark be rekindled in the land of playacting and pretend?