the last was my reduction of richard iii.world but ended here. >> this is the story of that to her. >> exactly. and the story of the whole project. the absurd, utopian ideal of traveling -- a traveling global theater company that can mount reductions on huge scale to tour the world and what it means in different cultures. it means when people cannot understand the language but can understand the polity of the play. sydney tobul to greece. from outside to inside. theto see the epidermis -- greece must have been amazing. if you have some magical experiences in them. i was slightly trepidations about going there. and it was a completely different thing. it is truly magical. i always sound like a terrible theater person when i talk about it. unless you have been there, we have spent a long time feeling like second-class it is -- citizens. we are artists and we are constantly going to fundraising galas. there is a sense in which the begging bowl is always slightly out. and the effect of that is to make you feel a thing quite a sli

we graduated from richard iii to yargo and played right through to king leer and it was a relationship that ultimately would arrive at leer which is seen as a pinnacle. i'm not a big fan of pinnacle and peak and people talk about leer as being a mountain to climb but it is the most extraordinarily frightening and violent play and i found it incredibly wonderful to work on. it's very unsentimental. it paints a picture of lear. thou dost evil. this society has been dominated by a man who hasn't heard no for 30 years and is told that by a daughter when he's about to and over the country. >> charlie: and doesn't like it. >> and you see the collapse of a family and a nation at the same time. so the two with things run concurrently. i felt like i'd seen a lot of productions of the play when i watched the family collapse. but the national theater on the largest stage and in the west, as it were, enables one to paint the picture of a nation, you know, in crisis. a nation splitting apart. a national play for the national theater. and the politics of the play are something i was fascinating expl

mark, "richard iii." tony "act one." jones "the glass ma knowledgery." awe dra mcdonald "lady day at emmerson bar and grill." "the velocity of autumn." >> the nominees by an actor in a leading role in a musical are, neil patrick harris, ramon "les mis" andy carl "rocky" jefferson mays "a gentleman's guide to love and murder" bryce pinkham "a gentleman's guide to love and murder." leading actress for a leading role in a musical are -- mary bridgette davies "a night with janis joplin. foster, "violet." edina man zell, "if then." jesse mueller "beautiful." kelly o'hara, "bridges of madison county." >> the nominees for best revival of a play are the cripple of inishmon. the glass my knowledgery. a raisin in the sun. 12th night. the nominees for best revival of a musical are -- hezig and the angry inch. les mis. violet. >> the nominees for best play are -- act i by james la pine. all the way by robert shankin. casa valentina, mothers and sons by terrence mcnally and outside by john patrick shanley. the nominees for best music

richard, great interview. we'll continue to talk about it throughout the morning. thank you for coming on. >>> breaking overnight, ukraine's interim prime minister saying flat out russia wants to starred world war iii is not doing much to convince people otherwise, starting military drills just outside ukraine. president obama says he is ready to level the most aggressive sanctions yet. let's bring in senior international correspondent nick paton walsh in ukraine with the latest. nick? >> chris, we are a ways away from world war iii but it's a sheer amount of political weight around the tension here that's got everybody so worried. we just heard from the ukrainian government through a state news agency that they want to introduce the second phase of the antiterror operation here. and that seems to involved surrounding one of the hot spots of the pro-russian militants and protesters here, a town called slav slaviansk. far to the left in odessa, nobody injured. also here a helicopter blowing up at an airfield taken by ukrainian troops in a town called kramatorsk. they say a sniper's bullet or grenade they may have caused it but they said it could have been technical. continual drip of violence and te