The Admirable Crichton - review
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThe seed of this JM Barrie upstairs-downstairs drama was planted by Arthur Conan Doyle's observation that "if a king and an able seaman were to be wrecked together on a desert island, the sailor would end as king and the monarch as servant".Barrie spun the suggestion into a masterful spoof on the British class system: Lord Loam scandalises polite society by inviting his servants to take t…