| For Love and Life | |
| Director: | Alfred Dampier |
| Music: | Percy Kehoe |
| Premiere: | 29 November 1890 |
| Place: | Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne |
| Orig Lang: | English |
| Subject: | hypnotism |
For Love and Life is a 1890 Australian play by Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch about hypnotism, a topic then very fashionable in London.[1] [2] [3]
Table Talk called it "a thoroughly successful play. It is strong in construction, witha clearly-told plot, and characterised by telling situations. It is so difficult to discover anything new on which to build up a plot now-a-days, that the collaborateurs deserve honest praise for the'wayin which they have woven their story about the much-discussed subjeot of hypnotism."[4]
The Argues said the play needed " a less complicated and more coherent plot, some infusion of humour, a more interesting dialogue, and more natural incident."[5]
The Lorgnette said "it is a strong play, although somewhat complicated, and at times incoherent in plot" but stating "it is a cleverly constructed and well-written drama, and at any rate may be taken as a. courageous venture on- the part of the authors."[6]
The play was not as successful as other Dampier melodramas.[7]