macbeth and lady macbeth have not had success making children so immortality is not guaranteed by familyo now perhaps it can be seized by having your name in the history books. >> the relationship during the two, is she more ambitious than he? >> we wanted to bring in the savage world when she says goodbye to him and he goes off to battle, the idea whether he comes home or not is very heavily questioned. when they do come back, we wanted to present this very functioning relationship. they fancy the pants off each other and it's very passionate. >> the passion comes out clearly. >> there are no successful marriages and shakespeare except the macbeth which is strange because they both die and kill the king along the way. the first conversation i had with alex about this, to me central to the show and the performance that he adores her. she's a natural companion for him. >> is she stronger or weaker? >> she is the first one to invite evil into the room. we are in a room where we believe in it. the audience has seen it because they were hanging around those stones. she has balls enough to do

and this idea of what the legacy is, you know macbeth and lady macbeth not being able to have children or haven't been successful yet, so immortality is not had by family, so maybe it's seized in the history books by being king. >> charlie: is she more ambitious than he? >> i think she's differently ambitious. one of the things we tried to bring in was the savage world where she says goodbye to him and he goes off to battle, the idea of whether he comes home or not is very heavily questioned and when we do come back, what we did present is we always wanted to present a functioning relationship. they fans idea the pants off each other and it's very passionate. >> charlie: the passion is clear. >> he said there are no successful marriages except macbeth's. they always die and kill a king along the way. the first conversation with alex central to the show and performance is he adores her and she's a natural companion for him and i think that they -- you know, the breakup -- >> charlie: was she stronger or weaker? >> well, again, you know, they both at different times invoke the dark world

park avenue armory where macbeth is being staged. rob ashford is the codirector of macbeth.s won emmys, tony's, and an olivier award. she's best known for her role as dr. cordrey on "e.r." thank you for joining us. what is the melding of talent between you and you? defined.er this is my first shakespeare other than in college. i played polonius. it's the first. what a great teacher. what a great partner. >> explain how it came together. not in terms of how you ended up in the deal but how you approached the deal in you complement each other. >> we first met to talk about the play and a very specific playabout the feel of the or the time, the kind of rawness, visceral nature which is very clear and sounded great to me. we work together on making an edit of the play. it has no intermission, great. sign me up for that. >> we've talked about pacing. as a lot of that what he does? my distinguished colleague here does is a determination to feel as though you can act on the lines in the audiences enjoying having to be fairly fast thinking because these characters inc. fast. was jus

. >> onto the markets now, and today, the top -- the talk sounded like something out of macbeth -- triplewitching. >> there was a lot of movement in the last trading day because of the triple witching. shares jumping without a special reason, caused by expiring futures and options. the event happens four times a year, and this time, it led to a new record level, but traders are warning the into careless -- being too careless may lead to setbacks. >> let's have a look at the markets. we start off with the closing number in frankfurt. the close just under the 10,000 mark. euro stoxx 50 losing about 1.4%, to end the day at 3302. across the atlantic, in new york, trading is still under way. the dow is slightly up at this point, 16949 is the number. the euro just under $1.36. >> heavy rains and floods in northeastern bulgaria have claimed the lives of at least 12 people. many others are still missing. >> water surged through the streets, hindering rescue workers and piling up cars. the government has declared next monday a day of national mourning. right, let's get to the world cup now, and a

>> macbeth. no. this is the least productive congress in decades.they've done nothing to address the issues that the american people care about and instead have sought to get in the way of the president seeking to address the concerns of the american people. and if you look at what their poll ratings are in congress, the lowest they've been in years, which don't even compare to the president being in the 40s in terms of favorability, look, it's in the numbers. the american people are frustrated. that's what the president is pointed out. he can sit down with boehner, with mcconnell and others and get these issues addressed, but they refuse to do so. >> oh, that's not true. >> instead they want to distract to other issues that get us nowhere. >> let me get to one other point in terms of this debate. i want to play something from the president here and get cal's response. >> i just want to be real blunt. if you watch the news, you just see, okay, washington is a mess and the basic attitude is, everybody is just crazy up there. >> cal, to you, very quic