Downstairs at the Banshee Labyrinth is a strange cave-live venue. Eleanor begins her show letting the audience know she has brought the divers from the Thai rescue mission to help the audience out at the end of the show.
Success Without a Sex Tape is based on the concept that everyone has made a decision whether they know it or not to make/not make a sex tape, with Eleanor stating that she could be a “massive slag”, but without a public sex tape, you’d never know. Although she would consider it to advertise herself to future suitors.
Eleanor is a strong opener, with a fantastic stage presence. She admits to being disgraced for not protecting her family from abuse about her show last year, naming her father in answer to the question “Who’s your Daddy?” She explains her decision to name him to protect any other John Tiernans that may be targeted by mistake.
Fearing being called “no craic at all” she complies to get involved in the throwing of the bouquet at a wedding. A strange phenomenon to Tiernan as she wonders if hand-eye co-ordination is an attractive quality for men to find in a woman. Seen by Eleanor as a humiliating ritual to point out single women she conveys the other participants as standing between her and true love, so they must be destroyed.
A highlighting point of Eleanor’s show is her story about finding a rat in her London apartment, how it conflicted her vegan housemate and the lengths she went to for exterminators to come to her home.
Genuinely Hilarious, Success Without a Sextape draws on Tiernan’s indifference to seminars for a millionaire mindset, cat cafes and Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette.
A relevant and enlightening show, every member of the audience made it out without the help of rescuers this time, but Eleanor should keep those guys on call as they will definitely come back for more.
★★★★
Eleanor Tiernan’s, Success Without a Sex Tape is on at the Banshee Labyrinth, Chamber Room at 13:40 until August 26th
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