Some places never let go of the people who loved there.

Charlie carries Lucy, his ailing childhood sweetheart, back to the battered tenement stairwell where, decades earlier, they carved their names into the wall and promised each other forever.

For Lucy, it's a final journey to the place where their love began. For Charlie, it's a chance to protect the woman he has loved all his life from a frightening new world neither of them understands.

But as Charlie desperately searches beneath layers of paint for the names they carved as kids, another reality begins to emerge—one that transforms their sentimental homecoming into something far more haunting.

STAIRWELL is a tender, unsettling one-act about enduring love, memory, aging and the things we refuse to surrender—even when everything around us says it's time to let go.

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2M; 1F. Approximately 15 minutes

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Part of the HAUNTED Collection of Supernatural One-Act Plays