Cumming and Henderson reunite for intimate musical about life's precious moments

Across four decades and countless miles of separate lives, two Scottish actors who first found each other as young strangers on a television set have returned to share a stage — this time to tell a story about the quiet evidence of love. Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson reunite at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in The History of Paper, a musical that asks what we keep, and why. In a culture that moves quickly and discards easily, their production — born from a radio play, shaped by grief, and carried by a friendship older than most careers — offers a meditation on the documents that prove a life