Her story: Bryony Kimmings, 34, performer

We met at
Street Feast
in Dalston – a bit clichéd. I had been secured out for months writing and was a student in the feeling in order to have some lighter moments and perchance satisfying some one. My personal mate met up with a man labeled as Joe, and so I demanded that Joe summon one of his solitary mates down, otherwise I would make his existence a misery.

When Tim appeared I caught him whispering about me to Joe. We struck it off and had a really fun, drunken night together. It wasn’t till the then morning I realized he was actually good-looking. He stood up in his trousers and that I thought, “Bloody hell – he’s muscly.” I did not consider it could be any thing more than a one-night stand.

Four weeks afterwards, we were just chatting back at my sleep and that I remember thinking I got never ever came across somebody i really could end up being pals with such as this and have gender with and… “You love myself not?” the guy stated. “I completely love you back.”

6 months later on i discovered Tim’s antidepressants. We consented which he would try to come off all of them as it was indeed eight years since their finally major low, however it did not go so well.

I proceeded tour and disliked leaving him in that state. I kept considering, “Is he going to kill himself?” While I got back we said to him, “I’m never causing you to be once again, so you either have to discover ways to end up being a theatre specialist or we will need to generate a show with each other.” “let us make a show,” he said. We chose to succeed about Tim’s despair.

The tv series’s done really therefore we’re at this time touring it, which means that living in both’s pockets a whole lot. Which can be hard. We see him on stage and I believe, “check this out guy, the guy appears indeed there every evening telling every person his story and makes them laugh and weep.” Personally I think so proud. I have never been more crazy. I am five months expecting, as well.

Their story: Tim Grayburn, 33, musician

I found myself having outstanding summertime. I was doing work in marketing, and had simply had an all-expenses-paid visit to Brazil. Then I found Bryony and she fascinated myself because essentially she ended up being out of her mind. She ran rampage and that I believed, “Ooh, I like that.”

It was hard writing about despair together. I’d never ever done it prior to. I believed it actually was my personal issue and nobody must understand. If you tell some one you see closing a existence, there is a big opportunity they could escape.

We made a plan, performed plenty of analysis, detoxed, stopped drinking, started exercising. Then when we started to appear various and never in an effective way, I dismissed it, however it didn’t disappear completely and I also had a meltdown.

We turned my personal nose-up at performance art before Bryony introduced us to it. But really I’d never seen it or appreciated how it tackles vital topics. We understood that everything Bryony made could be good. The content of our own tv show is actually: this is just what happens when you’re an idiot bloke and do not talk about your issues. We very nearly bailed.

It absolutely was the most frightening time of my entire life doing that first tv series. Once upon a time we struggled speaking before four to five people. I am just inside my lingerie before 100 people, speaking about my personal despair. I am not stressed at all any more. We have now done the tv show 60 instances. It is given me personally self-confidence I never really had. Bryony is an amazing musician therefore proficient at acquiring some people’s interest about essential subjects. She tends to make individuals consider, she is funny, bubbly and a pain within the arse often. And she is my rock.

Fake It ‘Til you will be making its during the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, throughout August after which at Soho Theatre, London, from 22 Sep to 17 October