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In a play by this author, a character admits, “I have been known to plunge into sinful infatuation with the Alto Saxophone,” as his girlfriend cuts carrots. The second act of that play by this author ends with a man laying a rabbit-fur coat over his father, after sticking his fingers in a woman’s mouth. In that play by this author, a man shaves his sleeping father’s head with electric clippers. This author created a character who confesses to murder in front of Father Dewis after Shelly steals Bradley’s prosthetic leg. At the end of a play by this author, a man strangles his brother with a telephone cord after a meeting with the producer Saul Kimmer. Another play by this author ends with Tilden digging up the title baby that his father Dodge drowned. For 10 points, name this American playwright of True West and Buried Child. ■END■
ANSWER: Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]
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