The Stage

Public abuse

Published Monday 16 November 2009 at 11:00

Now, to a more serious example of law-breaking. Robert Daws, the actor perhaps best known as Tuppy Glossop from Jeeves and Wooster, was the victim of a rather nasty attack outside his house this week.

He’s about to appear in the play Public Property at the Trafalgar Studios from November 16 and the producers of the show revealed that: “Disturbed by drunken shouting and abuse at 1am, Robert went to ask the perpetrator if he would mind moving on and not swearing and shouting as he had young children asleep inside. He was punched to the ground and subsequently rushed to hospital unconscious. He has since been released from hospital and is bravely carrying on with his part of newsreader Geoffrey Hammond, despite suffering from post traumatic shock. He is not pressing charges against his assailant.”

Which sounds very reasonable of him. Let’s hope there’s no need for any misquoting of his reviews when Public Property opens to the press. It would seem slightly unfair if his actual assault was followed by a metaphorical one from the critics.