From left: Parvesh Cheena and Rachna Khatau in "Wives" at East West Players (Photo by Brian Hashimoto) First performed off-Broadway in 2019, “Wives” by Jaclyn Backhaus is a pastiche of stories focused on wives, mistresses, mothers and witches (in other words, most women), making a comedic case for an alternative to patriarchy. In East West Players’ coproduction of the play with Hypokrit Live Arts — continuing through Nov. 1 and engagingly directed by Arpita Mukherjee — fo