Audio, Media, Special Projects

Life After the Rehearsal Club (audio walking tour)

Why

The Women’s Project approached me to create a walking tour about women and theater for the iPhone app Locacious. It’s a really clever app. It allows people to use GPS to locate and listen in to stops on already recorded audio walking tours. Just like finding a subway stop or restaurant on Google maps, you can locate a stop in any city anywhere around the world and immediately listen in on the tour at anytime. It also provides a little production studio right in the app so you can create your own tours. I decided to create a tour that follows a fictional young playwright through midtown Manhattan as she goes about her work.

What

Project Website: http://www.locacious.net/
Characters: 1 female, and you, the listener
Running Time: 7 stops, 2-4 minutes each, plus walking time
Summary: A young, emerging playwright leaves her day job early to take care of her own work. Over the course of the afternoon she attends a meeting with a producer, participates in the first reading of a new play of hers, drops off a script and an application, and more. Follow along and learn about what it means to be a playwright in 21st century New York.

When & Where

Availability: Anytime you please. Download the app here.
Production History:
• Commissioned by Women’s Project & Productions, Inc. (Off-Broadway theater), June 2011

* Many thanks to the Women’s Project for asking me to create this project.

By Alexis

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work has been published, produced, and screened in venues across the US, Europe, and South America. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered in the fall of 2019 in New York City and has since screened around the US and internationally. Her play Unknown also premiered in October 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other plays of hers have been produced, published, and anthologized across the US and the UK over the past two decades. Her prose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. In addition to her writing and filmmaking, she is currently serving on the Executive Board of CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a co-founder of Little Rainbows, a queer story time for children and their caretakers.

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