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As You Like It is one of the Bard’s comedies that ticks several Elizabethan mirth-making boxes; love at first sight, cross dressing, plain speaking fools and flirty freedoms when courtly townspeople head out to the countryside. Director Michael Boyd has added a dash of darkness to the proceedings too…

Amanda Hale (Cordelia) and Pete Postlethwaite (Lear). Photo by Stephen Vaughan Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays Lear under hot young director Rupert Goold (his Macbeth won awards, you know) as part of Liverpool08: how exciting? Imagine the swell of anticipation on learning they’re bringing the whole …