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Gráinne Maguire - Motivational Speaker

Being a comedian, you are often asked by well meaning people for things you are completely unsuited for, but you do anyway, because you no longer feel emotions like shame anymore and you get paid. When I was booked to give a 40 minute humorous, motivational speech about mental health at an all-girls private school, I dealt with it the same way I face anything overwhelmingly difficult. I fell into a fugue state of denial until I was actually on the bus to the gig and it was too late to do anything. 

As the bus trundled to that red dot on my google map, looming nearer like the Eye of Sauron, the fine mess I’d got myself into really sharpened in my mind. How could I entertain a hall of teenage girls at 11am in the morning about mental health? Even when I’m depressed, I’m shit at it. When Amy Winehouse was dumped she wrote an iconic album; when I get my heart broken, I write Instagram messages to Taylor Swift about how us girls are in this together. 

I think it’s best to be realistic. The key is not to avoid the crazy, but to make

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one4review | On 25, Aug 2016

Gráinne Maguire is a comedian who always seems to be slightly under the radar to a lot of people but can certainly hold her own with the best, especially when it involves her talking about politics in my opinion.
However this show starts off with more of an insight into her, growing up with a Jekyll & Hyde father, her fantasies of being in a ‘romantic’ civil war, the way Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Beauty and The Beast and Wizard of Oz maybe influence a young girls thinking on gender roles before melding into how people and nations view themselves.
She has anecdotes about museums especially one in Germany, relationships a visit to The Planetarium but the strongest material is when she gets into politics, something that majors on the controversial 8th amendment in her native Ireland which is all about abortion laws.
Ms McGuire is a performer to be listened to as she talks a lot of sense. She does so with a set that is well constructed and filled with funny moments.
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Reviewed by Geoff
19.15 to 20.15
Pleasance Beside
Until 28th

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