ABOUT US
Very Clock are an emerging international theatre company formed at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama by Anna Clifford, Georgina Thomas and Veronika Szabo. We have experience as performers, directors and sound designers. We experiment with the relationship between the aural, the visual world and our physicality using binaural and other sound technologies. We collaboratively devise our shows and we use liveness, humour and fiction in our work. Our last two performances have been pieces of headphone theatre. Our latest show The Timestealers is about how we treat time. Recently we opened the 'We are now Festival' at the Roundhouse with our show One Moment.
WHO WE ARE
Veronika Szabó (HU) is a theatre maker, performer and director. She studied acting, applied theatre, sociology and finishing her MA at Central School of Speech and Drama. She has been creating performance work on her own and with a range of collaborators since 2007. She explores how people can unfold their public selves and break binary codes. She often creates immersive, participatory or site specific performances as well as directing community based shows. She runs workshops and trainings about forum theatre. Her work often includes audience participation, aurality, dark humour, movement, singing and performs in unusual spaces, such as a boat, a powerhouse or a construction site. She performed at various festivals and theatres internationally; in the UK at the Albany Theatre, Almeida Theatre, BikeShed Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Forest Fringe, Royal Festival Hall etc. She is also a founding member of Mummy’s Sloppy Honey and Flying Fish Collective. More info: veronikaszabo.wordpress.com
Anna Clock (IRL) is a composer, musician and sound designer based in London via Dublin. Her work often involves improvisation, experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration and challenging conventional audience/performer dynamics. She studied music and english literature at Trinity College Dublin, 'Cello performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and has recently completed an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Recent work outside Very Clock includes Graphene: Wonder Materials (created as part of a Brighter Sound residency with Anna Meredith at the Museum of Science and Industry); Poke in the Eye (Georgie Morrell – Edinburgh Fringe 2016); Snail Walk (Discotheque Collective; Dublin 2013; Berlin 2016). As a composer and instrumentalist she has written for the RTE Contempo quartet, Tonnta, New Dublin Voices, Kirkos Ensemble, Node Ensemble, Dulciana, Gamelan Nua as well as for her own groups Low Tide and Téada Orchestra, and performed with a number of Irish acts including Gavin Prior, David Turpin, Emma O’Reilly, Laura Hyland, Hozier, David Lacey and others. Her release Celestial is available on Bandcamp and she is an active member of the Irish Composers Collective.
Georgina Thomas (UK) is a performer and theatre practitioner. She met Anna and Vera on the MA Advanced Theatre Practice where they formed Very Clock. Georgina read English and Classics at the University of Birmingham where she started creating and devising theatre. She has a background in Classical singing and has an interest in the role of the voice in headphone theatre. Georgina is fascinated by the ASMR phenomenon and continues to experiment with binaural sound technology, exploring theatre through sound and texture. Alongside Very Clock, Georgina is also a founding member of the company, Mummy's Sloppy Honey.