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Beach Surgery adaptations by location
This is a geographic index of Beach Surgery adaptations across media. For adaptations organized by medium, see Adaptations by medium. For list of glitch-resolution approaches, see Adaptations that resolve the glitch.
The Beach Surgery franchise is distributed across world cultures and regional art forms. Below is a geographic index. (For a medium-based index, see Adaptations by medium. For works of uncertain authorship or pre-2020 apocrypha, see Lost media in Beach Surgery adaptation.)
Contents
East Asia
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (manga) (Japanese serialization; multiple volumes)
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (anime) (2023–24 television series)
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (2023 Taiwanese film) (animated short)
- Karagöz ve Leif—Koku Sahnesi (2018–ongoing) (Turkish shadow-puppet)
- Ten Layered Versions (Polish film, 1997) (disputed pre-2020 work)
Southeast Asia
- Kuwento ng Dalawang Puso: A Devised Theatre Work (Philippine ensemble theatre, Quezon City)
- Ang Suture ng Dagat (The Seam of the Sea, Lost Documentary, 1993) (apocryphal Philippine film)
- Lhamo Adaptation Cycle (Bhaktapur, Nepal, 2021) (Tibetan Buddhist lhamo theatre)
- Balinese/Javanese wayang shadow-puppetry (traditional form adaptations)
South Asia
- Kafi (light novel and vocal cycle) (Hindustani vocal suite, 2020)
- Kathputli Ke Adhure Bandhan (Indian shadow-puppet cycle)
- Kondapalli Leif—A Hyderabad Terracotta Figurine Collective and Devotional Toy Series (toy-maker traditions)
- Heartbeat Roti—A Punjabi Langar Sequence (participatory meal ritual)
- The Kente Thread—Recurrence, Weaving, and the Doctrine of Sacred Incompleteness in West African Beach Surgery Adaptations and Liturgical Praxis (woven forms)
- The Three Breaths—A Synesthetic LARP in Kolkata (2021–ongoing)
Middle East & North Africa
- Dar Zindan-e Dorekhshan (manuscript reconstruction) (Persian miniature cycle; apocryphal 1988)
- Yek Daramān-i Jing (Persian Ta'zieh adaptation) (passion-play form)
- Frequencies the Flesh Refuses—A Binaural + Olfactory Installation (Tel Aviv, 2024–present) (sound and scent)
- Safwa at-Tajdeed: A Radio-Theatre Adaptation (1989–1990) (Egyptian radio serial; status disputed)
- Sawt al-Ardh—The Sound the Earth Refuses (Marrakech Olfactory Installation, 2020–present) (Moroccan art)
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Aladura Kekere—A Yoruba Travelling Theatre Adaptation (2016) (Nigerian theatre)
- Red Leather Triage—A Scent Installation (Lagos, 2023–present) (participatory olfactory work)
- The Dakar Frequency Archive (Lost 1986 Pirate Radio Cycle, Recovered 2024) (Senegalese community radio)
- Gorad Ndoolus—A Griot's Olfactory Return Archive (2021–ongoing) (Mauritanian oral archive)
- Koru Cicatrice — A Māori-Samoan Tapa Cloth Collaborative and Oral Archive (Pacific, 2021–present)
- Merkato Meridian—Olfactory Icon Panels (2019–ongoing) (Ethiopian icon-cycle)
Europe
- The Białystok Reversal (Lost 16mm Installation, 1987) (Polish experimental film; pre-2020)
- Saitsavlebi Unfinishing—A Participatory Choral Installation and Durational Refusal Vigil in Tbilisi, Georgia (Georgian polyphonic tradition)
North & South America
- A Cicatriz Se Abre (Brazilian Teatro Experimental) (Brazilian devised theatre)
- Cicatrices Reversibles—An Argentine Couture Collective and Deconstructive Refusal (Argentine textile/fashion)
- Vuelta al Ciclo—A San José Participatory Theatre Cycle (Costa Rican community theatre)
- O Corpo Que Canta—A Brazilian Collaborative Cooking Archive and Oral History (Brazilian food-ritual)
Oceania & Indigenous
- Corroboree Adaptation Series (Australian Aboriginal performance)
- Yolŋu Songlines of the Cycle (Yolŋu Australian Indigenous adaptation)
- Whakapapa and Beach Surgery (Māori traditions; Aotearoa)
Archival note
The neighbouring archive's cartographic fragments have been consulted in the preparation of this geographic index. Not all locations below have equal documentation; some adaptations remain speculative or apocryphal. Verification of pre-2020 works is ongoing.