Russian theatre jams phones

This week The Guardian noted that the Alexandrinsky theatre in St Petersburg now jams mobile phone signals during theatrical performances. This measure was prompted after a phone rang during the pivotal suicide scene at the end of Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse.

The Guardian interviewed a number of British artistic directors and playwrights for their opinions on the Russian approach to these aural intrusions. The responses indicate that mobile phones interrupt performances in the UK on a regular basis. One wonders how the Irish compare?