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THE PROLAPSE: THE BOYS OPEN UP

 
Esther Review by Esther 3 Published: 17 Aug 2025 23 Commercial Street Show Dates: 14 Aug 2025-17 Aug 2025

Matty Jagiello’s and Aurelio Lova’s comedy split-hour might be the gayest show at the Fringe. Quite the claim, but they may just take the coveted title – and not just because of the name.

Defiantly queer, delightfully naughty

The Prolapse: The Boys Open Up is part of PBH’s Free Fringe and marks Jagiello’s and Lova’s first time at the festival. On day two of their four-day foray, there are still some initial nerves, but they quickly get us onside, which, indeed, helps the boys open up.

Jagiello and Lova guide us through grim Grindr accounts, the burden of bottoming – Jagiello has a helpful sports analogy for what turns out to be an overwhelmingly straight audience to explain the concept of “tops” and “bottoms” – and “Adam fucking Sandler.”

In a cosy room early in the afternoon, we’re a small crowd, but the boys have us in hysterics, earning multiple applause breaks. They each charm in their own way: Lova, on the surface, a measured storyteller who catches you off guard with a dark misdirect; Jagiello, a strutting, caustic menace who delights in painting pictures in explicit detail.

The joke-per-minute rate is impressive for a debut, showing a lot of work has gone into honing the show. Some punchlines get lost, as each seems keen to stick to the script or be time-conscious. It is a credit to their writing that they get an intimate crowd erupting over content that would usually work best in an evening timeslot. It would have been nice to let the laughter die down and play with the audience a little more before rushing on to the next bit.

The Prolapse is doing a criminally short run, so you only have until 17 August to catch this defiantly queer, delightfully naughty show.

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Something fell out… of the closet! Matty & Aurelio bring you a split-hour comedy show full of bold stories from two of BCN's top queer comedians (though we're vers at best). Join us through our outrageously sexy journeys through lush douching, cute choking experiences and close encounters of the vaginal kind. You'll love us and we'll love you.