Once you have seen this, you will want to see every role that Patsy Ferran ever plays.

Originally, I had booked to see this production just once. But in Chichester, in November, I was convinced otherwise by a man sitting next to me throughout the three-in-a-day Young Chekhov festival. I took the guy seriously: he’s a total fanatic, who saw 160 plays last year and 135 the year before. He said that this is the best production of As You Like It that he’s ever seen — so good, he need never see another.