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After three Shakespeare adaptations, The Candle Wasters turned their hands to original content, with the queer rom-com musical, Happy Playland.
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With funding through the inaugural Skip Ahead initiative, The Candle Wasters have been supported by NZ On Air and YouTube to make this series in 2017. Happy Playland  is a love story between two young women, but also a narrative on dealing with anxiety, the pressures of family, and navigating life as a part of the digital generation.

The series was shot over two weeks in Lower Hutt at Avalon Studios and Junglerama in May 2017, followed by a live episode filmed on Cuba St in Wellington in June. 

Happy Playland is the second collaboration with Robbie Nicol (White Man Behind A Desk) and is also the first collaboration Thomas Coppell of Tomorrow, Rain as co-producer. 

This webseries has 10 episodes which were released on The Candle Wasters YouTube channel. The total duration of the series is 1 hour and 17 minutes. 

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