Supposing: review – only ancient Greek rage will suffice in our exasperating times

Traverse theatre, EdinburghA modern, secular woman is transformed into a Hellenic heroine as she sees visions of the future in Zinnie Harris’s minimalist drama If you found Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey too bombastic, you might prefer your Greek drama filtered like this. Written and directed by Zinnie Harris, Supposing: could scarcely be staged more simply. Designer Alisa Kalyanova outlines a white-edged circle on the floor of an otherwise empty space. It could be the hole on the high street that Sally trips into for want of a protective bollard. Or it could be the kitchen where she tells her husband, Richard, about her strange concern. “I think I’ve been cursed,” she says, imagining him react in a hundred different ways – incredulous, mocking, shocked – none of them good. Either way, the circle defines the relationship between actors Nicole Cooper and Richard Conlon – both excellent as they revolve around each other, desiring to get close but so often repelled, twisting apart because of the import of Sally’s revelation. Is this modern day secular woman, who does not believe in gods but in concrete facts, suffering some kind of mental collapse, or does her curse