Sentence examples for theatrical protest from inspiring English sources

Theatrical protest group BP or not BP? invaded the RSC's stages repeatedly in 2012 when BP sponsored a series of plays there, and have performed without permission in the British Museum 18 times.

Activists have twice disrupted the British exhibition, most recently on Sunday, when the UK-based theatrical protest group BP or Not BP? protested over the sponsorship of Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation by BP.

Mr. Sullivan, a well-known defense lawyer, opened the day with a theatrical protest, throwing down papers at the lectern, saying that in his 40 years of practice he had never encountered such blatant government ineptitude.

Billionaires for Bush, one of the better known of the theatrical protest groups, whose members dress to the nines and picket Republican events shouting slogans like "Blood for oil" and "Corporations are people too," lists on its Web site more than 50 chapters in the United States and France, Korea, Australia and Germany.

Though the Performance Guild has not had any discussions with the city about their use of public plazas, they plan to continue bringing their brand of theatrical protest to them.

Theatrical protests, however, risk theatrical responses.

Violent and often theatrical protests have long been a mainstay in Greece, even before the financial crisis hit.

The current session of Parliament has so far produced only rancor, as opposition parties have shut down proceedings with angry, theatrical protests against corruption.

With theatrical protests that brought national attention to poverty and discrimination suffered by his people, he became arguably the nation's best-known Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

Queer and punk activism, well-practiced in work at the periphery, took a lead, and paved a road into the eighties, with theatrical protests at the 1984 Democratic National Convention; the audacious, enormously successful efforts by ACT UP to change AIDS policy; and the pushy, calculating Earth First! movement, which sought to "make it more costly for those in power to resist than to give in".

The 1970s socialist-feminist collective Witch – the letters stood for anything the leaders felt like from moment to moment, but Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell was a popular choice – held theatrical protests, starting by "hexing" the New York stock exchange and going on to attend a "bridal fair" where they unleashed white mice into the crowd.