A new production of a magical musical about unbounding joy, impossible grief, a man, a woman and the little bits of paper that make up a life.   

First seen at the Traverse Theatre in 2024 as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, A History of Paper co-created by Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams, won a Fringe First, Music Theatre Review Best Musical award and the Best Director at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) for Dundee Rep Theatre Artistic Director Andrew Panton. 

Andrew returns to direct a new co-production with Pitlochry Festival Theatre starring Tony, Olivier, BAFTA and Emmy award winner Alan Cumming, and Olivier and BAFTA award winner Shirley Henderson. This pair of Scottish acting titans reunite after first playing opposite each other in Scottish Television’s Shadow of the Stone 40 years ago! More recently they appeared together in Brian Cox’s directorial film debut Glenrothan.  

Creative Team

By Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams
Directed by Andrew Panton
Musically Directed by Gavin Whitworth
Designed by Ana Inés Jabares Pita
Lighting Design by Bruno Poet
Sound Design by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Production Manager Dan Franklin
Stage Manager Martyn Sergent
Deputy Stage Manager Emma Skaer
Assistant Stage Manager Shay McCourt
Sound No.1 Lana Kirk
Sound No.2 MK Giannico
Lighting Programmer Karin Anderson
LX and Sound Technician Ruaraidh Macphee 
Stage Technician Scott Parker
Associate Sound Designer Russell Ditchfield
Vocal Coach & Understudy Casting Michael Howell
Producers James Orange and Anne McCluskey

Cast 

He Alan Cumming
She Shirley Henderson

Pianist Gavin Whitworh

He (Cover) Derek McGhie
She (Cover) Emily Winter