At last Saturday night’s performance of Hedda Gabler at the Wharf Theatre there were numerous signs and two verbal announcements before the play and after interval warning patrons to check their mobile phones were turned off. But the warnings were not enough. A Spike operative reports that about five minutes into the second half one patron’s phone started to ring. To the tut-tuts of the audience, he reached into his bag to turn it off, but fumbled and the phone went flying onto the stage as the audience gasped. [More]