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 offer students the opportunity to act & direct in 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! By involving the students in the production, the goals of teaching tolerance are much more immediate. 

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 helping to create productions at colleges and high schools, offering student populations 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. Teachers are then invited to present educational curriculum about empowerment and oppression, so slams have immediate relevance to the lives or their students, increasing understanding and tolerance.