A trailer for the Brighton Festival world premiere of Galatea that ran 5-21 May 2023. Co-produced by Emma Frankland, Marlborough Productions, Wildworks, and Andy Kesson. 

The video opens in darkness, and then firelight flickers. We follow a moving plume of red smoke that eventually clears, revealing two figures in a room of an old building. A tall Black person with a shaved head wears a chain-mail head piece and a long blue-black coat. They are standing next to a brown person with red and black locs, sitting on a wooden crate. This second person is wearing a white collared ruff around their neck, a red, black, and white hockey jersey, and camouflage-style trousers. The pair are sitting in front of a fire pit. A cardboard protest sign in a window behind them reads ‘No Sacrifices’. Eerie choral music plays. The word ‘Galatea’ appears over them in white lettering.

There is a sound like thunder rumbling and the scene cuts flickers in and out between the tall person waving their arms over the fire, as if in ritual, and them standing with bared teeth and wide eyes, holding up a sign towards the camera that reads ‘The Monster Is Coming’. The words ‘Newly Adapted by Emma Frankland and Subira Joy” flash over the screen. 

The choral music returns and the video fades to black, leaving only the show title, run dates, and supporter logos visible.