One Night a Year

A queer ghost story draped in absurdity and longing, ONE NIGHT A YEAR imagines two dead lovers granted a single evening each year to feel again—touch, kiss, bicker, mourn, and maybe make love. Their desperate attempts at intimacy are interrupted by a lonely ghost who craves connection of her own. Mixing raunchy humor with melancholy romance, the play interrogates what lingers after death: desire, grief, and the...

A queer ghost story draped in absurdity and longing, ONE NIGHT A YEAR imagines two dead lovers granted a single evening each year to feel again—touch, kiss, bicker, mourn, and maybe make love. Their desperate attempts at intimacy are interrupted by a lonely ghost who craves connection of her own. Mixing raunchy humor with melancholy romance, the play interrogates what lingers after death: desire, grief, and the things we never quite finish saying.

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One Night a Year

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  • Wesley Cappiello: One Night a Year

    A hilarious play that keeps leveling up the humor and sexuality! Definitely something I’d love to see staged. Full of twists, turns, and things that go bump in the night (in more ways than one).

    A hilarious play that keeps leveling up the humor and sexuality! Definitely something I’d love to see staged. Full of twists, turns, and things that go bump in the night (in more ways than one).

Character Information

  • Charlie
    Character Age
    20s-30s
  • Will
    Character Age
    20s-30s
  • The Ghost
    Character Age
    20s or older

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Selection for the Queens Short Play Festival, Year 2026