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What we know, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

For the first 15 minutes of Pamela Carter’s new play, it looks for all the world like David Cameron’s ghastliest wet dream of domestic bliss.

A loving couple cook dinner, swapping icky in-joke intimacies as they go, all wrapped up in a world of their own making. Lucy and Jo are contemplating the future, grasping at something they can’t quite define.