The point of being a life-coach, as Violet Sackville-Rhoad would say, is to sort out other peoples' mess and laugh at them behind their backs.

The trouble is, there is so much mess in the world, where do you start?

Well, you start with DEATH: D for diet, E for exercise, A for action, T for green tea and H for hobbies.

These are the ramblings of a mad old woman: The world's first septuagenarian life coach.

In Violet, actor Philip Cox has created a character who looks at the world through the eyes of a pensioner suddenly exposed to the new-age world through the means of the internet.

Having purchased an iMac from her local store - on the promise it could remove unwanted hair when it was not surfing the web - she has stumbled across all the advice needed to become a life coach.

In this one-woman show, Cox made some fantastic observations about life and cracked some truly delicious gags.

Review by Cliff Ettridge, features@theargus.co.uk