Pine Street Theater, 215 SE Ninth, Saturday July 29th, $12 in advance ,18 & over, mandatory dress & ID.

THIS IS AN EVENT where serious, silly, and absurd mingle as one and the same, aiming for pure titillation. It's a celebration of bondage, dominance, spankings, cross dressing, terribly uncomfortable shoes, leather, fire dancing, belly dancing, role playing, stripping, hair-dye, black mesh, and home made riding crops. The night centers on revised fairy tales turned into sex skits--sleeping beauty as vulnerable and violated, red riding hood as the story of a whipped beast. The skits incorporate the recently titled Mr. SFX, a Seattle stripper who goes by the name Keoni. From what I've seen of Keoni (not as much as others have, I'm sure) the guy doesn't stop moving.

While the skits are performed on the main stage, demonstrations on everything from how to be a sex slave to the fine art of Japanese rope bondage will be going on in side rooms. Mistress Victoria, dominatrix of Blood Moon Manor, promises a full night of lessons, complete with her own pack of slaves, and the Countess Vekquin, a Seattle dominatrix, is driving down to share the wisdom of 15 years experience.

Though it's hard to judge a show like this from rehearsals, the night seems to promise a combination of variety show and show-and-tell in an enthusiastic, welcoming party scene.