Uncluttered and untricky …

… Head of the class.

First performed in London in 1902, "The Admirable Crichton" is the story of an upper-class London family whose eccentric but well-meaning patriarch, Lord Henry Lasenby, the Earl of Loam (Michael Page), subscribes to the Rousseauvian notion that "our divisions into classes are artificial" and that "if we were to return to nature, which is the aspiration of my life, all would be equal." Not so Crichton (Tom Frey), his omnicompetent, ultra-conservative butler, who believes no less devoutly that the English class system is "the natural outcome of a civilized society. There must always be a master and servants in all civilized communities...for it is natural, and whatever is natural is right."