Two old friends talk together about their bodies the night before one goes for major surgery – desires and violations that they’ve experienced, adaptations and defences they’ve constructed. A secret is revealed, pitting their long-held beliefs against private experience.

Written for Zoom during lockdown, Headcount was a way to think about how women of my generation navigated the long arc of social changes.

Written by Karla Ptáček,
performed live by Roz Borley and Karla Ptáček.