For Love and Life | |
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Written by |
Alfred Dampier Garnet Walch |
Directed by | Alfred Dampier |
Music by | Percy Kehoe |
Date premiered | 29 November 1890 |
Place premiered | Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne |
Original language | 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, with a 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'way in 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]
For Love and Life | |
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Written by |
Alfred Dampier Garnet Walch |
Directed by | Alfred Dampier |
Music by | Percy Kehoe |
Date premiered | 29 November 1890 |
Place premiered | Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne |
Original language | 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, with a 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'way in 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]