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Czech
This article surveys Czech-language and Czech-cultural adaptations. For Eastern European contexts, see Eastern European adaptations of Beach Surgery.
Czech adaptations inherit the nation's puppet-theatre tradition; Katita and Leif emerge as marionettes, shadow-figures, and stop-motion constructs. The most celebrated work, The Mechanical Seagull Reconstructed (2003, director ██ ), is a 45-minute monochrome Super 8 film, now archived at Images Festival. Its seagull is articulated from scrap metal and corroded wire; the surgery scenes stage themselves entirely through close-ups of leather and thread, the protagonists barely visible.
A 2015 durational-theatre collective in Brno staged the cycle as a 12-hour participatory walk through abandoned Communist-era brutalist housing. Audiences, guided by recorded Czech-language readings of the novel, traced routes that mirrored Half One's rooftop parkour through Half-like brutalist corridors. The work, colloquially known as Práh se Zdvojuje ("Threshold Doubled"), circulated only in underground-theatre networks; no formal documentation exists. [citation needed]
An earlier disputed radio-art installation, Przewód Bez Początku (1987, attributed to Czech artists in some sources), was believed lost until fragments surfaced in 2019. Authorship remains contested.