'As You Like It' is one of the few Shakespeare plays to not have a truly great production of the ones available. Almost all of them, except the 'Shakespeare: The Animated Tales' adaptation, are heavily flawed and some more so than others (the 1992 Christine Edzard production faring worst). Part of the problem is the play itself, which has some memorable speeches and characters but also a thin story and an absurd ending that none of the available adaptations solved.Royal Shakespeare Company's 2019 production is one of the better ones seen. It is not perfect, with the thing that has always been a problem staging 'As You Like It' still being one. It is though very entertaining, charming and well designed and acted, and its energy cannot be denied. Like most of the Shakespeare productions to experiment with the gender reversal concept, this particular concept didn't quite come off and didn't seem necessary.The many good things, which vastly outweigh the not so good, will be mentioned first