Performance art as minor act of resistance to the State. A new wrinkle on performance and everyday life: performing the everyday life of a performer as “not not” a performer! Resist! courageous puffers!
From an AP story titled “If only actors can smoke, everyone’s a star: Bar customers thwart Minnesota law with costumes, funny accents”
A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them “actors.”
The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away — and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too.
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