‘B.E.D.S The Musical’ uses the co-creators experience of mental health illness and mental health stigma to tell the tale of Gary. Gary is “a straight talker, who tells it how it is,” and after some considerable misfortune finds himself jobless, without his partner and living back at his mums. Desperate to make sense of his situation, he goes on a mission to get diagnosed with a mental health condition and claim some of that ‘free money mad people get’. The people he meets along the way and the struggles they face, conflict with Gary’s past lifestyle and the Faustian temptations thrown into his path by the head of CRAPITA (the government backed agency contracted to decide benefit eligibility).