A day in Arlesey with . . .
. . . Louise Callow
Louise Callow runs Scamp Theatre with business partner Jennifer Sutherland from a back garden office in
Arlesey. Louise, 52, lives with her rescue dog Molly, is a retired Army Major and is currently England Ladies
National Fly Fishing Champion.
Questions by Jodie Chillery
What time does the day start in this house – its busy already and
its only 10.00am?
We don’t normally start till 10am because a lot of theatres don’t
start till then as obviously they are open at night. Teresa Burns our
general manager comes in at 10. She helped out stuffing envelopes
with us once and has never left!
There is no typical day here, you never know what is coming.
But because we are a touring theatre, there is an awful lot of
accommodation booking and logistics to work out, a lot of the day
is spent managing that.
So what does Scamp Theatre do?
We produce theatre exclusively for young people from 3yrs and up.
We’re the umbrella producers that found the productions and then
find them a future life. There is no point making theatre that no one
will come to see. Its crucial that we are inspiring the next generation
– if you see a good piece of theatre when you are 3 years old, you
remember it and you sing the songs and we don’t have actors in great
big suits, we have anim