Suria has lost her husband (she hasn’t misplaced him or anything - he’s dead).
Join her & the kids in Turkey on what will become “the worst holiday ever.” A trip fraught with new challenges: navigating bad advice, sympathetic head tilts… and the ‘W’ word. Unfortunately, the turbulent dynamics of a newly fractured family aren’t the kind of baggage you can just stow away neatly in the overhead compartment…
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WIDOWHOOD is a dark-but-uplifting one-woman show exploring the experiences of young widows, loss, and why it’s okay to talk about death.
A Beginner’s Guide to Widowhood is inspired by lead artist Omar Khan’s mum’s grief, and the experience of losing her husband (his Dad).
The show aims to explore the profound impact death can have on identity, family dynamics, and mental well-being. It aims to question society’s perceptions of what it means to be a ‘widow’.
The initial concept was devised during lockdown (2020) after interviews with participants from our partner charity ‘Widowed & Young’.
ABGW has been developed alongside writer Rae Mainwaring (Primetime - Women & Theatre, Bright Places - Left Bank Pictures (in dev), The Last (plastic) Straw - Birmingham REP & Theatre Lolo), and movement director Laura Ryder (The Drum - Hubbub Theatre, Slow Violence - B Team, Of Mice & Men - Birmingham REP).