Suria has lost her husband (she hasnt misplaced him or anything hes 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 arent the kind of baggage you can just stow away neatly in the overhead compartment Produced in partnership with the national charity, Widowed & Young and inspired by real-life experiences, A Beginners Guide to Widowhood is dark-but-uplifting one-woman show exploring the experiences of young widows, loss, and why its okay to talk about death. OMAR KHAN: DIRECTOR + CO-WRITER Omar is a director, facilitator and writer based in the Midlands, with a focus on collaborative, non-hierarchical processes. His work engages communities and enables conversations around topics including: identity, death and spirituality. He is an alumnus of Birmingham REPs Foundry Scheme, Tamashas Directors Programme & RTYDSs 18 Month Residency. Directing credits include: Mr Burns: A Post Electric Play - Derby Theatre, Kilburn (Not London) - New Perspectives; & Ritual - Birmingham REP RAE MAINWARING: WRITER Rae Mainwaring is a writer and theatre maker from the West Midlands. She studied at the University of Birmingham and began work as a Drama Practitioner delivering community engagement projects. She is an alumnus of Birmingham Reps Foundry Programme and an associate of Graeae Theatre companys Beyond programme. She was one of Northern stages Supported Artists 21 and BBC Writers room/Coventry Voices cohort. Raes auto-biographical play Bright Places is currently being developed for television with Left Bank Pictures. Writing credits include: Primetime, Women & Theatre @ Bham Rep/Podcast, Fat Cat/Confessions @Coventry Shop Front, Bright Places @ Birmingham Rep/China Plate Bite Size Festival + The Last (Plastic) Straw @ Theatre Iolo.