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A character in one of this author’s plays mistakes a sweatshop heating system for a maypole and incorrectly believes another character to have written Anatomy of Shadows. In a play by this author, a character jokes that a man might have misheard the head gardener Manuel’s reply to a question about nasturtiums. A playwright named Thomas is forced to yell, “Hail, Aphrodite!” at the end of a play by this author in which Vanda auditions for a role in an adaptation of Venus in Furs. In a play by this author, a woman repeatedly shows her husband an encyclopedia entry about his death. That play by this author, like his play about a date between Bill and Betty, resets the scene every time a bell rings. (10[1])For 10 points, what American playwright included Variations on the Death of Trotsky and Sure Thing in his collection All in the Timing? ■END■

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