For Love and Life

For Love and Life is a 1890 Australian play by Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch about hypnotism, a topic then very fashionable in London.
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."
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."
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."
The play was not as successful as other Dampier melodramas.