The Adelaide Fringe Festival and IPAN-International Performing Arts Network present BITE SIZE, six bold new plays by Australian playwrights. Bite Size is a 60 minute voyage through six surprising worlds as these short plays explore the theme _x0018_ things aren_x0019_ t always as they seem._x0019_ From the shadowy realm of an artist and his muse, down the halls of death row the audience traverses a corporate underworld go through into 1930_x0019_ s Germany to finally resurface gasping in a fish tank. Real, surreal and absurd, the plays showcase the work of four emerging Australian playwrights. ABOUT THE PLAYS The Pen by IPAN Writer_x0019_ s Group Join our offbeat characters as they wrestle with their unusual addictions in an onstage confessional. The Muse by Samantha Hardy Is the classical muse still relevant in today's fast-paced, materialistic world and does anyone remember how to call for one? If you managed to invoke the muse, what would it be like to receive an answer? Edward, struggling artist and muse-caller, is about to find out. The play the Muse was inspired by the relationships that artists throughout history have had with their muses and features a poem by American poet Jared Barhite, the Muse. The Applicant by Sama Ky Balson Theo is a writer, an artist, sometimes musician, with a love of quality stationary that he cannot sustain. Weary from using tea bags twice and having his cornflakes with water instead of milk, he decides it_x0019_ s time to join the corporate world and make some cash. Theo faces his first business interview plagued with self doubt, moral debate and rather noisy alter egos. What is he really signing up for? Once Bitten by Emme Hoy Kunzo is on death row after committing a brutal crime and best friend, Brett, will do anything to set him free. Does Kunzo deserve another chance or is Brett blinded to the truth?. Will Paula, a jaded officer, be able to break away from her binary view of the world or will her strict morals sentence Kunzo to death? How far will Brett go to save Kunzo_x0019_ s life? The Equation by Ruth Melville Based on the true story of Emmy Noether, Professor of Mathematics, sacked from the University of Gottingen, Germany in 1933, following the introduction of the _x0018_ Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities._x0019_ Emmy continues to hold classes in her apartment with one of her most promising students, Ernst Witt. Fish Tank by Ruth Melville Not all is well in the fish tank. Maia_x0019_ s dreams of a better life in an outdoor pond have brought her unstuck while Vulcan, worried and impatient, turns his attention to the mermaid.

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