Hallowe'en and November 5 are gone, Christmas is just out of excitement's reach. So what are we supposed to do on those dark November nights?

If you're short of inspiration, look no further than a Komedia brochure.

Tonight and tomorrow, comedian Lee Mack will warm away the winter chills with his sharp sense of humour.

Mack is a former Perrier award nominee and was the star of the BAFTA Award-winning The Sketch Show. Tickets cost £10, the show starts at 8pm.

Parka-clad comics, Men In Coats, perform their absurd and unconventional full-length show on Thursday.

Men In Coats won the Hackney Empire Best New Act 2001 and were a huge hit at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Tickets £8.50/£6.50, starts 7.30pm.

Book now for politically-acute comic Mark Thomas.

His show on Saturday November 26 is almost sold out Tickets £9/£7, starts 7.30pm.

Another top-selling show is Robert Llewellyn's Women Wizard.

Best known as Kryten from Red Dwarf, Llewellyn is also a top-notch stand-up comic.

His latest show consists of him presenting his home-made software called Women Wizard, a complex programme to enable men to understand women and a simple one for women to understand men. Tickets £12/£10, starts 8pm.

The theatre action kicks off on Monday and Tuesday when Actors Of Dionysus present Electra, a tale of betrayal, murder and vengeance.

AOD recently resettled in Brighton and are arguably the UK's best interpreters of Greek drama.

Next Friday, independent company Fecundtheatre inject a much-needed sense of beauty, wonder and immediacy into contemporary theatre with their show Hello You.

This production is imbued with a rich vein of playful humour, curiosity and technical excellence. Tickets £8/£6, starts 8pm.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, November 19 and 20, Talk Sex Show explore ideas about love and being loved via humour, practical demonstration, domestic film footage and unparalleled wisdom. Tickets £10/£8, starts 8pm.

The following Wednesday and Thursday, November 27 and 28, the Twentieth Century Girls present The Kosh - a story of love from the Forties to present time told through passionate cabaret acts set against a sound design of instrumental jazz, sampled speech, advertising and poetry. Tickets £9/£7, starts 8.30pm.

Watch out for My Uncle Arny on next month. Inspired by the illustrations, life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show takes children, adults and those-in-between on a fantastically funny yet poetic journey into Lear's world of make believe.

For more information about upcoming shows, call 01273 647100.