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guerrilla theater en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A form of protest performance art carried out in public.
"R.I.P. Brother, Sister, Friend, Lover, Unknown," read the cardboard tombstones in a mock cemetery set up by ACT UP/Boston on the front lawn of Fisons Pharmaceutical Corporation Aug. 4. In an audacious display of guerrilla theater, six ACT UP pallbearers, carrying a black coffin, led a procession of sign-toting protesters through the cemetery to the front door of the company.
1988 August 20, Chris Bull, “ACT UP Zaps Fisons Co.”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 1: