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     Say What?  Who’d expect that a theater audience would be so gullible as to fall for a plot device that hinges on an ardent lover climbing into bed expecting to find his mate only to be deceived by an imposter who’s stealthily taken her place?  I mean, no matter how dark the bed chamber, such deception should soon be discovered. Right?  Wrong! Turns out literature is full of similar stories starting with the Biblical account of how Laban tricked Jacob into sleeping with his older daughter Leah when he thought he was sleeping with his younger daughter, Rachel, on their wedding night no less. A little bit of research turned up a surprising number of literary works with a similar plot device including those written by Chaucer, in Arthurian romance, Greek mythology, Hindu literature and, most notably, Shakespeare in “Measure for Measure” and “All’s Well that Ends Well.” Bringing a modern twist to the ploy to the stage is playwright, Keiko Green, ...