Meanings
- uncountableA form of protest performance art carried out in public.
1 more example
"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
Synonyms & antonyms
noundramatization of a social issue; enacted outside in a park or on the street
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guerrilla theater. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guerrilla%20theater
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