1. Stop! Was Eirik Stub right to cancel Rambergs performances, and then go on to fire the...

1. Stop! Was Eirik Stubø right to cancel Ramberg’s performances, and then go on to fire the actor? A documentary on the popular Swedish actress Josefin Nilsson was broadcast on 22 March 2019 by Swedish television company SVT. Nilsson had died in February 2016; the documentary ‘Josefin Nilsson

– Love me for who I am’ was released on the day she would have celebrated her 50th birthday.

In the documentary, it was revealed that Nilsson was mentally and physically abused by a boyfriend in the 1990s. The boyfriend in question was fellow actor Örjan Ramberg, who was later convicted and given a prison sentence for beating and threatening Nilsson. However, on appeal, Ramberg avoided jail.

He was given a conditional sentence; the case was not reported in the press.

The broadcast of the documentary was followed the next day by public protests involving several hundred people outside the Dramaten, the famous Stockholm theatre, where Ramberg was starring in a play. On social media, many people expressed sympathy for Nilsson, and anger at Ramberg.

In response, the theatre cancelled two of Ramberg’s performances. Dramaten’s Chief Executive, Eirik Stubø said: ‘There are many who have been affected by this and there is a concern among our employees as well as among our audience’. He said that the Dramaten had been subjected to strong criticism on social media. Stubø

added, however, that once a person had been punished for a crime and had served their sentence, he thought they should ‘be able to return to society and be able to do their work