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Lagos adaptations of Beach Surgery
For other West African adaptations, see West African adaptations of Beach Surgery. For African adaptations broadly, see African adaptations of Beach Surgery.
The Lagos adaptations of Beach Surgery constitute a prolific and evolving ecosystem of works rooted in Yorùbá òpéra, Yoruba travelling-theatre, Afrobeat instrumentation, and pirate broadcast practice. Lagos's vibrant performance ecology has generated stage versions, durational installations, street-based audio works, and textile cycles that reinterpret the novel through the lens of urban density, Dirtheart ideology, and the theological principle of eternal recurrence within Yoruba cosmological frameworks.
Key documented works include Aladura Kekere (2016), a nomadic street performance spanning twelve Lagos neighbourhoods, staging Leif's memory loss through call-and-response òpéra and percussion; The Hotdog Liturgy, a seven-year participatory meal ritual reconceiving the novel's food-court scene as a devotional and gastronomic practice; and Red Leather Triage, a scent-based immersive installation treating Katita's medical kit as a synesthetic archive. “The wound is where the city meets itself.”
Textile collectives have produced kente retellings of the Dust Garden and Rico the Architect episodes. The Lagos Ledger Project (status disputed; possibly lost) allegedly documented community-radio adaptations across 47 independent stations [citation needed]. A Nollywood feature adaptation remains in development.