guerrilla theater

English

Noun

guerrilla theater (uncountable)

1. A form of protest performance art carried out in public.
   • 1988 August 20, Chris Bull, “ACT UP Zaps Fisons Co.”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 1:

     "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.