Seyi Omooba is suing Curve Theatre

'We' have become 'them' at breakneck speed...

I think she'd have actually been given a script, read it, found out she couldn't possible play the role, told the company, they'd have replaced her and none of this nonsense would've occurred.

But then logic doesn't usually work in the face of emotional frenzy.

Where did she say this?

I don't know why certain posters appear to be acting as apologists for this person.

What matters is that those views were expressed and were still held. How they came to be more widely noticed is not relevant.

People are capable of changing over time and this should be encouraged. But when someone doubles down on views that put them in direct conflict with their colleagues and the ethos of a workplace then it is clear they are not (at least) for now willing to change, grow or make amends.

The person who lost their tribunal case today seems to fall clearly into that category. But it is their own actions and chosen belief that created this situation and caused huge stress/expense for a theatre and company going through the most challenging time for the arts.

I will not feel any sympathy for someone who has done this to themselves. They have had plenty of time as an adult to emerge from the direct influence/control of their parent. They have to take responsibility for their own choices.

If they want to return to the world of musical theatre then the onus is on them and them alone to do the heavy lifting of educating themselves so that they can make better choices. If the right apologies are made and a clear understanding of the harm that their past actions have caused then support will be there as they continue on a more enlightened path.

Unless and until that happens, self-inflicted obscurity is all that they deserve.

I don't know why certain posters fail to see the fact that there are 2 sides to every story and that your thoughts on something is not the only story worth telling. You also don't get to be right simply because you kicked and screamed the loudest and think your word is gospel (Oh the irony) no matter how many followers you gather.

You seem to think you know everything this person coulda, shoulda, woulda done and that is that. You know exactly what she did, every thought she had, without taking any sort of logic, reason and you know...reality into consideration. Everything in life is cause and effect and I am not condoning her actions or sticking up for her in anyway, I am merely trying to provide some kind of context to the situation instead of looking at everything from a purely emotionally blinkered level.

Anyways I will bow out now and leave you to it. That fact that you think it is perfectly acceptable to destroy someone's life for saying they agree with biblical text on a social media platform 6 years ago is just absolutely horrifying to me. How you think that kind of intolerance and ignorance is any different than hers is beyond me.

The fact that you can't see that the only person who destroyed her life is her is beyond me.

Whether or not you think it was right for the Facebook post to be re-published or not, she could have dealt with it maturely and responsibly by apologising, or even by not apologising, taking the full payment the Curve offered her and walking away. Instead she chose to drag this through the mud and bring a claim that was doomed to fail.

She has no-one but herself to blame for that.

I have been arguing passionately on this subject since it first came to our attention because it absolutely matters.

It distresses me that we are still having to fight religion-based homophobia.

My right to exist as a gay man is not up for debate by anyone. And certainly not by someone who is relying on ancient texts to justify their hate.

Nothing any of us have said in this forum will have the slightest impact on the future employment prospects of Seyi Omooba. We have no responsibility for her whatsoever.

She is responsible for her own actions, her own choices, her own chosen beliefs and the only one to blame for the position in which she has found herself. Not the Curve. Not the person who shared her Facebook post. And certainly not anyone on this theatre discussion forum.

We are not destroying anything. The damage to her reputation and her future employment prospects are entirely self inflicted.

Sunset Boulevard at Curve was available worldwide besides America so hopefully this should be the same, I guess it will say on their website.

She's a grown woman with a brain and clearly a certain amount of life experiences, at the very least by osmosis given the world she has worked in. Of course her upbringing plays a role in her thinking but at the end of the day we are all responsible for our own lives and destinies.

She could have issued an apology or taken the pay off if she had wanted to, no-one could have forced her not to.

And in any event you were trying to excuse her by blaming the person who highlighted her abhorrent post. I merely pointed out that you were side-stepping the nub of the issue. You seem so determined to exonerate her of any blame that you are ignoring the simple choices she chose to make and trying to blame anyone but her. Life doesn't work like that.

That’s a shame, but thanks for replying.

If a gay actor who had been hounded and abused by Christians his whole life and hates them with every fibre of his being was offered a role playing a gay hating Christian, should he be allowed to play the role if he chose to?

There are no words...!