Bringing multicultural theater to universities and schools, Another Country continues its dedication to the marriage of social justice, creativity and community-building.

SLAMBoston
Diverse Voices in Theater

Let Us Come Slam Your School!
Our school slams present five multicultural plays in a poetry slam format. After each play performs, scores are held up by 5 student judges as in the Olympics! The play with the highest score wins—and judges are held accountable by audience participation!

SLAMBoston, Diverse Voices in Theater, was developed by Another Country Production’s Artistic Director Lyralen Kaye, winner of the Boston Women’s Amazon Poetry Slam Finals. She wanted to create a fun, exciting format that blended the competition and surprise of a slam with a commitment to underrepresented voices in theater. The result was extraordinary: of the 12 slams produced between October of 2003 and November of 2005, ten have been sellouts!

Now SLAMBoston is touring colleges, offering student audiences the opportunity to experience the blending of voices—mainstream, gay, lesbian, people of color, the disabled—in the format that has drawn so much attention in the Boston theater scene. Featuring talkbacks with the actors about their own experiences of empowerment and oppression, these slams help students to create community across race, gender preference and other barriers, increasing understanding and tolerance.