Director's Note: Atom Egoyan on Cruel and Tender
Arsinée Khanjian (photo credit: Bruce Zinger)It may be possible to have a marriage without cruelty...by Atom Egoyan(republished by permission of Canadian Stage, Photo of Atom Egoyan by Bruce Zinger)It's striking that one of the first dramas to deal with the subject of marriage takes such a radical approach in its presentation. In writing Trachiniae, Sophocles tells the story of the great warrior Heracles and hi…