IT is not sexual but it is full frontal. So reads the warning for the adults-only Puppetry Of The Penis, the show that really does put manhood on display.

Direct from a sell-out season in the West End, via a return to this month's Edinburgh Fringe, this Australian puppet show with the human touch is on its way to the Grand Opera House in York on October 4.

General manager Lizzie Richards has not seen the stage spectacle herself but says: "It was a big hit at Edinburgh last summer; it went down well at the Leeds Grand earlier this year and it's been playing to sold-out audiences across the country - and there was a big-selling book at Christmas when apparently it was an ideal stocking filler.

"The only complaints nationwide have come from, shall we say, the more conservative theatre-goer, and while I'm expecting a few complaints, I'm told it's not a lewd show; it's more fun really."

Written and devised by David Friend and Simon Morely and first performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1998, Puppetry Of The Penis exposes the "ancient Australian art of Genital Origami", a skill that has been witnessed with "fits of laughter and squeals of amazement" in the West End by the likes of Elton John, Naomi Campbell, Posh Spice and David Beckham, Lulu, U2's Bono, Hugh Grant, Joan and Jackie Collins, Tim Rice and Ruby Wax.

Billed as "shocking, hilarious, ridiculous and raw", Puppetry Of The Penis is said to be just that: a novelty puppet show in which the "handsome, muscular and well endowed Australians Stephen Harrison and Daniel Lewry manipulate (with charm and great aplomb) their genitalia into various shapes, objects and landmarks".

What can you expect to see at 8pm on October 4? Audiences will discover the Loch Ness Monster, be impressed by the Windsurfer, enjoy the Hamburger and coax the slow-emerging Mollusc from its shell. You want more? The repertoire created by original genital puppeteers Friend and Morely extends to the Olympic Flame, the Skateboard, the Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Eiffel Tower, an Electric Fan and even Prince Phillip.

A video camera will project every intimate detail of these unusual phenomena on to a large screen ensuring that little can be missed - even from the back row!

If you are still unsure about experiencing Puppetry Of The Penis and would prefer Dick Whittington at Christmas, reflect on this: more than a quarter of a million people have seen the Aussie hit show, and The Guardian critic effused: "Witty...Charming...Entertaining...Extra-ordinary... Don't try this at home!"

In another Strictly Adults Only production this autumn, Fame Factory presents James Harman's comedy Any Extras? from September 17 to 22 at 7.30pm nightly.

Set behind closed doors in Vera's Massage Parlour, Any Extras? is an insight into the "revelations of life on the front line". Your mother wouldn't like it; your granny wouldn't understand it, your head teacher wouldn't admit to it, and your vicar? He is already late for his appointment."

An unlikely series of coincidences will lead to "an hilarious climax" in a comedy that reckons to be as "English as fish and chips, as traditional as farce, and as randy as your auntie after a bottle of QC".

The promoters say: "Don't come if you're easily offended, but do come if you want a good, loud, lewd and luscious laugh at the absurd antics behind those business cards in telephone boxes."

The title RAW! might suggest that yet another adults-only entertainment is in the autumn programme. However, RAW! is a fusion of percussion and dance in the style of Stomp and Tap Dogs, directed and choreographed by the brother-and-sister team of Scott Peters and Michelle Peters and booked into York for October 15 to 20 for 7.30pm evening shows plus Thursday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm.

RAW!, or Rhythm At Work to give it its full title, is embarking on its first UK tour after its debut in Jersey earlier this year.

In a show dedicated to making extraordinary music out of the most ordinary of objects, the young RAW! performers use everything from cement mixers to step ladders, tin cans to hard hats, scrubbing brushes to garden tools. If it can make a noise, they will play it.

Then add in the dancing, as the competing forces of percussion and dance work with and then against each other in an increasingly fast and furious performance.

Further autumn and winter highlights include: the return of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, October 22 to 27; hairy comedian Bill Bailey, October 30; blue comic Roy 'Chubby' Brown, November 12; the ever- happy Jack Dee, December 8; and the Christmas pantomime, Dick Whittington, with Neighbours star Anne Charleston, Last Of The Summer Wine's Jean Fergusson and impressionist Aiden J Harvey, December 10 to January 6.

For tickets, ring 01904 671818; for group bookings 01904 626605.