You never know what might happen.”Each year the Moth asks a single writer to judge the prize blind. Previous judges include Kevin Barry, Kit de Waal and Mike McCormack – and this year it’s Mark Haddon. The Island was published in Oxtales: Fire, one of the four Elements volumes published by Profile Books and Oxfam in 2009. Every good play – and every scene in a good play – is a contest between at least two characters who have contradictory needs and desires. Writer’s block is my default state, interrupted every now and then by a burst of writing.

Source: The Irish Times June 23, 2020 04:52 UTC