Do you and your partner fancy doing something different this Valentine's? How about a swingers' party in Portslade?

The hosts are Chris (female), a probation officer who loves sex, and Chris (male), an assistant analyst who's really in it for the DIY.

He's converted 92 Shoreham View Villas into a swinger's paradise, replete with a spa in the double garage and a dungeon in the box room. So why don't you pop over and give Terry from Alldays 40 lashes?

Okay, so the party is actually taking place at Komedia, and the Portslade swingers are the creations of Perrier-nominee Joanna Neary and her fellow Brighton-based comedian Richard Dyball. But as Dyball observes, apologising in advance for any pomposity, "the great joy of theatre is that you can tell an audience where they are and they believe it".

A brand new collection of character comedy, the intention of Dyball And Neary: Don't Go There is certainly to provide some alternative entertainment for Valentine's eve.

"There's a loose love theme," explains Dyball, who teamed up with Neary when they realised the lack of female-male double acts. "But we're also trying to provide a bit of an escape route for anyone who's single or simply disinterested."

Promising "some of the sexiest, silliest, sauciest, scariest characters and couples you could ever wish to meet in a dark room", the show comprises all new material and will see the return of favourites from Neary's solo show (such as Fiona of Bongo Collective, apparently modelled on a shop assistant at Charleston Farmhouse) as well characters who have found their genesis in this new double act.

"One of my favourites is the two teenagers putting on their GCSE mock drama," says Dyball. "It's a school play about the the First World War with a little sexual frisson underneath.

"Casting my mind back to when I was that age, I was involved in something fairly similar about mental illness. Jo does this wonderful impression of a 15-year-old girl acting - with lots of hair tossing and a slight Joss Stone number in the middle."

Elsewhere you'll meet two Brighton rats who are deeply in love, Rosalynde and Dave who are "just utterly normal", Neary's extraordinary take on Bjork, who'll be singing a Valentine's song, and Colin Farrell who, as the namesake of a Hollywood hearthrob, believes he is irresistible to women. He is, in fact, an assistant manager at Dixons. In Uckfield.

But the highlight of the evening will surely be the point at which these two heroes of character comedy dispense with dialogue in order to capture the essence of one of Brighton's most recognisable types.

"We do a mime about Goth pro-creation," Dyball laughs, "and it's completely wordless. But there will, perhaps, be a little grunting to music."

Starts 8pm, Tickets £8/£6, Tel 01273 647100