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An actor’s recent outrage at audience members for watching the World Cup on their phones during a performance was uncalled for – actors should earn an audience’s attention, rather than expect it, writes Rebecca Nicholson.

On Tuesday evening, two women in Nottingham solved the impossible dilemma of having tickets for Titanic: The Musical and also wanting to watch England play Colombia in the World Cup by simply doing both at the same time. By the power of smartphones, football was indeed coming home, or at least to the front row of the Theatre Royal.
An actor from the production, Niall Sheehy, tweeted his irritation at these ticket buyers “who not only followed the penalty shootout on their phone,” he huffed, “but also said ‘yesss’ on each goal scored, you are the most ignorant audience members I have ever had the misfortune to perform in front of.” I might be confusing the musical with the movie here, but I feel even Rose DeWitt Bukater might have been watching that particular penalty shootout as the ship went down. “Dier’s up, move over Jack.”... Keep reading on The Guardian