Pat Ashworth in The Stage wrote "Maria Aberg says she could not imagine directing this play with any Rosalind other than Pippa Nixon, whom she deems extraordinary. She is. She has a dancer’s body, a spareness and litheness which make her cocky and capering in the guise of a man and deeply vulnerable as a woman. But it’s her openness and quick-wittedness that is so appealing. She makes us able to read her mind, and that really is extraordinary." Lyn Gardner tweeted: ‘Pippa Nixon is enchanting, knee-trembling, sexy and sad in Maria Aberg’s As You Like It. Up there with the greatest Rosalinds’. Simon Tavener reviewing for What’sOnStage.com made the point that, "For my money, Pippa Nixon is the brightest star in the RSC ensemble at the moment and I hope that they continue to nurture and cherish her." Charles Spencer writing in The Telegraph felt that "Pippa Nixon now gives one of the most entrancing Rosalinds I have ever seen." Echoing Spencer, Michael Billington in his review of As You Like It in The Guardian went so far as to exclaim that, "Its chief delight is Pippa Nixon, who, for me, joins Vanessa Redgrave, Adrian Lester and the late Susan Fleetwood in the select pantheon of memorable Rosalinds ... It is a captivating, wittily androgynous performance that ushers Nixon to the threshold of stardom."