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“I’ll take a funeral over a wedding any day,” declares John Patrick Shanley, 49, gleefully. The Bronx-born award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter, whose latest handiwork,
Where’s My Money? was recently staged at New York’s City Center Theater, is quite vehement.
“I think this is an area where I’m extremely Irish. The very concept of death is something that we Irish find cheerful and relaxing.”
The mood description, cheerful and relaxed, seems to reflect his demeanor today as he sits in the theater’s bar area, dressed casually in a sea-green cotton shirt, blue jeans and scruffy white sneakers.