Wilful Murder (play)
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Garnet Walch
by George Meredith
| Wilful Murder | |
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| Written by | Alfred Dampier Garnet Walch |
| Based on | Drama of London Life by George Meredith |
| Directed by | Alfred Dampier |
| Date premiered | March 19, 1892[1] |
| Place premiered | Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne[2] |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | melodrama |
Wilful Murder is an 1892 Australian play by Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch. The play adapted George Meredith's British play Drama of London Life, incorporating elements of the recent Windsor murder by Frederick Bailey Deeming.[3][4]
The play was presented by Alfred Dampier.[5][6] Alfred Harcourt, who was in the play, had a brief connection with Deeming.[7]
It ran for over six weeks in Melbourne.[8]
The Age observed " The temptation to tickle further the appetite of the public for the grim and ghastly was too powerful to resist."[9]
The Argus said " Apart from an unnecessary degree of attention being given to its more repulsive aspects the play is a fair one of its class, and was both well mounted and well played."[10]
