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SLUG – Hullo, My name is Lily Foster

 

Reported by – Jon Tattum

 

Proposed Headline – Hullo, My Name is Hunter Ewen

 

Blurb – The CU student talks about creating his multimedia production, “Hullo My Name is Lily Foster”

 

Music, poetry, film, aerial choreography: CU music doctoral candidate Hunter Ewen used all of these art forms to tell the story of a sexual abuse survivor in his multimedia production, “Hullo, My Name is Lily Foster.”

 

Ewen’s audience viewed the only production of his show Saturday at the Atlas Building’s Black Box Theatre. He used a Dean Small Grant from the music department to finance his show. When did Ewen realize he could put on the production?

 

“About 15 minutes ago,” Ewen said shortly after the show ended. Though he created the show’s dialogue, poetry, artwork and film, he said the production required the help of many people.

 

“As long as you keep it open and stay flexible, it makes for a really successful project” Ewen said. The show was something of a methodical composition said Ewen.

 

“If I’m doing a really angry scene then I try to get as angry as possible,” Ewen said. He wrote all of the show’s poetry from Lily’s perspective. He even created a Facebook profile for her.

 

He said how he tried to relate to the perspective of an 18 year-old sexual abuse survior.

 

“Go and read as many files as possible and go and interview as many people who were covering abuse victims as possible and try to find out what life from their perspective was like,” Ewen said.

 

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Source – Hunter Ewen, CU music doctoral candidate