World Premiere: "Raft" at the Tennessee Stage Company's New Play Festival

WUOT | By Chrissy Keuper

Published February 7, 2020 at 5:00 AM EST

This year, the Tennessee Stage Company is celebrating the 25^th anniversary of its New Play Festival. The festival includes the world premiere of a play called “Raft”, about two friends, Morgan and Hedgehog, who are stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a half-deflated bouncy-castle after being washed away from a birthday beach party during a storm. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with Tennessee playwrights playwrights Harrison Young and Carolyn Thomas about how the play evolved…

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Chrissy Keuper

Chrissy is WUOT's local All Things Considered host. Her first job with the station was as a weekend student announcer while earning her bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. From 2004 to 2015, she served as the station's local host for Morning Edition. In 2019, she returned to the station as the local host for All Things Considered.

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