The Color Purple - Leicester Curve / U.K. Tour

It seems obvious that she will get the boot at this point. If the talk of two cast members leaving at the expense of her, it would be in their best interest to get rid. Also, no one is coming to her defence really, that know her personally. I've seen a couple of people on twitter way "a friend of mine is friends with her" and going on to defend, but where are the actual people?

The reason it's taking so long is probably because there has to be some form of working out what is to happen. If she's fired or walks, they have to replace her. They have to keep peace with the other cast members. The Curve and Hippodrome have to negotiate what's going on. It's alot more complex. If there wasn't all this, I suspect they would of just said bye girl at the weekend to put a stop to all this backlash.

Who's talked of walking?

I don't think "if I were an actor, I wouldn't want to play a white supremacist" comparisons are quite right here; after all, it's widely enough accepted that white supremacy is bad, and perfectly nice actors play villains all the time. A closer comparison might be someone like Ricky Gervais playing, for instance, a priest. And yikes, now I say it, I honestly can't imagine him pulling it off, he's too convinced of his own rightness to play it in good faith and would almost certainly be approaching it sardonically. I understand some people choose to separate the art from the artist, and I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer to *that*, specifically, just what works for you personally, but when an artist makes their thoughts such an integral part of who they are, and are so open about it, and particularly when their thoughts are so detrimental to other people, wow it's so much harder to just ignore that and focus on their performance.

I agree with the idea that any perceived slowness from the Curve and the Hippodrome is because they want to make sure they get it RIGHT and there's no way they're just dragging their heels in the hopes that everyone will forget about it. People say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but I think the twenty-first century has more than proven that old maxim to no longer be true.

If things could have been done quickly they would have been done quickly.  You have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.   They wouldn't want this to drag on and reflect badly on them if they could help it, so probably they can't help it.

They have mismanaged expectations - that is my main gripe.  Don't use language like 'priority' which gives a sense of very rapid progress - talk in terms of 'issuing a statement once the investigation has been concluded' 

I appreciate that they are dealing with this sort of issue for the first time-  but they have not helped themselves today.

For the sake of clarity, I don't believe they are dragging their heels in any hope of this going away - but I do not think they have managed this as effectively as they should have done.

Thanks @baemax thats a much better comparison than the rather extreme one I made.

And oxfordsimon maybe Seyi is refusing to respond to Curve. As stated previously, we don't know whats going on behind the scenes...

Sadly I wouldn't be so sure. I do hope she is done with the production and that the deliberations have all been to find the best and easiest way to make that happen BUT I also have a concern that the producers may find their hands are tied and if she is adamant that she isn't going anywhere, they could be stuck with her.

which really would signal the end because then everyone will be in uproar if she doesn't apologise and refuses to leave as well. Because then we know shes still homophobic and she doesn't care about the people she works with or the audience.

If ever there was a Theatre Board trip, this should be it. We can sit front row and wear rainbow outfits and when she come on for her final bow we can let off confetti cannons and start making out with one another.

Sounds like a pretty fun day out to be honest!

Very rapid progress on complicated legal matters like this is measured in days, not minutes or hours. And you have to factor in the weekend, when people simply will be more difficult to get hold of even if the key people are working round the clock. Especially when as here multiple parties are involved.

The issue here is your unrealistic expectations on timing, not the Curve being slow.

The very fact that’s she’s clearly not going to retract it suggests significant complications. If she’s adamant about making a point here, and not back down then her arguments could be:
1. My religious beliefs are from the bible, a religious doctrine that our legal system is built on.
2. They do not impact on my ability to perform the role.
3. I am an actor, I am trained to represent the character of people I am not similar to. 
4. If a heterosexual can’t perform the role of a gay person whose motives they don’t sympathise with, why can a gay person perform the role of a heterosexual. 

It only leaves the ‘bringing the theatre into disrepute’ thing to go on, and her own morals of course. It sounds SUPER-complicated to me.