Seyi Omooba is suing Curve Theatre

She can argue until she is blue in the face. Her views are bigoted, there is no place for them in society let alone the theatre industry and I can't believe how thick someone can be. There is no logic in her argument. Christian Centre can actually do one.

The way I view it is that the rights and protection of gay people must take priority over religion. Why? Because we can prove that gay people exist. Equal treatment of gay people is based on the fact that they are very real and have lives and families and marriages and children and jobs and mortgages etc. This can be proven and therefore can be passed into law based on evidence.

Religious beliefs, while you are entitled to hold them, are based on faith, not evidence. You cannot prove that God exists and so cannot be given legal priority over the rights of a gay person who demonstrably exists. Again, you can go into a church and believe what you want, I really don't care, but in a court of law you must work with facts and evidence.

I trust she has a back up career, because she isn’t working in a theatre ever again.

I guess she can mount a decent legal challenge, as her costs will be met by others.

I have to say though that she comes across as being totally naive, working in the arts where sexuality isn’t an issue and applying to work in a musical that has homosexual themes, well I’m just saying it is a bit like someone who follows the Jewish faith or even myself being a non-meat eater applying to work in a bacon factory or a Jehovah Witness applying to be a phlebotomist.

Did she really want to work in that musical or was there something a bit more all along?

She had already been in a production before. Yes it was a concert version but she can't claim to not know what she was letting herself in for.

And as for a proper legal challenge.. she might have done better to engage a proper employment lawyer rather than her chosen counsel who appears to have no legal training.

She is the architect of her own misfortune. And until she moves away from her beliefs, she is not deserving of any sympathy.

Maybe she should retrain in cyber.

If she is that dense, no other director would risk working with her every again.

They are going to laugh her out of court. I can't wait.

An awful lot of people (and a lot of awful people) seem to believe they can be cagey with the truth in court, and so long as they scatter a few scraps of information that paint them in a good light nobody will look too deeply into the gaps in their tale. But courts are used to people who think they can get away with only telling the half of the story that makes them look good. They can spot someone carefully skirting around an issue a mile off and they'll home straight in on the things that are being held back.

I am FINISHED.

I have seen the movie countless times and endured the musical once so I am by no means an expert on the score. I don't know how different either are to the book, but there is no way I'd have ever said Celie was a lesbian, nor do I get the impression she was from Walkers statement.

In both she had a single sexual encounter with a woman who showed her affection for the first time in her life and probably gave her a pretty good time in the process, but I don't see how that one encounter makes/made her a lesbian. She had her first enjoyable sexual encounter with a same sex partner like a lot of people have, I don't see how that automatically made her gay. I always assumed that Shug was meant to be the lesbian or bi-sexual character of the piece. 

I mean she never had another lover at all after her husband and Shug so maybe that is meant to imply she was and although she ends up leaving with Shug maaaaaaany years later, Shug is married to a man so I don't think their relationship went beyond friendship after that.

Obviously there may be more in the book but if your only reference to the piece was the film and the musical I would never have taken away that she was a lesbian, so I don't think Seyi can be blamed for thinking the same.

Still, does a character having one same sex kiss in a show make them a lesbian?

I am not getting this argument because it is pretty ambiguous in both of the mediums she watched it in.