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Newcastle adaptations of Beach Surgery
This article is a bibliography of Beach Surgery adaptations specifically set in, performed in, or responding to Newcastle, the primary setting of Half One (Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3). See also Adaptations by location and Newcastle.
Newcastle is the setting for Half One of A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight, encompassing Chapters 1, 2, and 3. The city's specific geography—its car parks, beaches, lighthouse, coal infrastructure, and vanishing architecture—has prompted numerous place-responsive adaptations both within Newcastle and by international practitioners seeking to engage the ontological particularity of Smith's fictional geography.
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Site-specific and immersive works
- The Corridor of Frequencies — An Audio-Locative Walking Tour of Newcastle's Ontological Incompleteness (2023–present)
- The Circuit at Nobbys (Site-Specific Participatory Walk)
- The Newcastle Spiral
- The Seven Stations of the Caught Descent—A Devotional Pilgrimage Walk Through Broken Hill and the Red Desert Interior (2022–present) [also features desert expansion]
- Sebaldian Newcastle—Photography, Memory, and the Recursive Walk in C. W. Smith's Beach Surgery
Theatrical and performance
- The Wound That Weeps—Seven Hours Beneath the Watt Hotel, Newcastle (Participatory Installation & Archive Excavation, 2023–ongoing)
- The Makeshift Clinic at Styx Creek
- The Breath-Count Protocol—A Paced Walking Meditation Route from Newcastle Harbour to the Radio Igloo Site (2023–present)
Films and documentaries
- Red Salt (Film, 2020) [Australian experimental cinema]
- Dust and Embrace—An Australian Cinema of Return
- The Decade Without Voices (Documentary, 2041) [Status disputed; post-dated publication]
Academic and critical
- The Newcastle Vanishing-Architecture Hypothesis
- The Sebaldian Accumulation Protocol—Photographic Memory, Archive Fever, and the Drone's Melancholic Witness in Beach Surgery