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The Gazini Players are proud to present For your Edification and Enjoyment Tales of great Joy, and of great Woe Ten years ago, Mina's beloved older brother disappeared with a troupe of travelling players, and was never heard from again. On the eve of Mina's own departure with a troupe, her father tells her she has a special gift for story telling, a gift he silenced years before in fear of her ability to call visions into being with her stories. Mina soon discovers that the travelling players draw their powers from a mysterious place called Tarya, where dreams are transformed into reality. While trying to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance, she discovers a dark secret to the players' onstage antics. Torn between finding her brother or exposing the truth about the players, could her gifts as a story teller offer a way to solve Harlequin's riddle?

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Woven from shining threads of history, myth and the Commedia dell' Arte, Harlequin's Riddle memorably explores the magic of creativity and the power of story against the background of an intriguing and vividly realised world. -- Sophie Masson

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Rachel Nightingale has been writing since the age of eight (early works are safely hidden away). Harlequin's Riddle is her first novel. Rachel holds a Masters degree and PhD in Creative Writing. Her short stories have been selected several times for exhibition as part of the Cancer Council Arts awards, and winning the Mercury Short Story competition (junior section) at the age of 16 only fueled her desire to share her stories with the world. One of her plays, No Sequel, won the People's Choice Award and First Prize at the Eltham Little Theatre's 10 Minute Play competition in 2014, while another, Crime Fiction, was performed at Short and Sweet Manila in 2016. Her second passion after writing is the theatre, and she has been performing in shows and working backstage for a rather long time. She co-wrote and performed in the 2013-2015 version of the hugely popular Murder on the Puffing Billy Express, a 1920s murder mystery set on the iconic Dandenong Ranges train. The inspiration for the Tarya trilogy, which begins with Harlequin's Riddle, began when she read a quote by Broadway actor Alan Cumming about that in-between moment just before you step on stage and enter a different world, and began to wonder what you might find in that place between worlds.

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